The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care across the country has dropped below 100 for the first time in over a month.
There are currently 99 patients who have the virus in ICUs, while there's a further 184 people getting treatment for non-Covid-19 issues.
This means that there are 1,400 general beds and 134 critical care beds available.
But the news comes as a further 34 people tragically lost their lives on Friday.
This brings the death toll in the Republic of Ireland to 1,265.
There have now been 20,833 people infected with coronavirus, with around 13,000 completely recovered.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Simon Harris branded Covid-19 “disgusting.”
He said it piled “grief on top of grief” by depriving the 1,265 heartbroken families of a proper funeral.
Churches will be allowed re-open with social distancing on July 20 under the new plan.
“Over 1,200 people have already died and if you go on to RIP.ie and see ‘A funeral will be held in private’, people are being deprived of the normal way of grieving,” he said.
“When we get through this pandemic we will have to come up with a way to properly grieve the people who’s lives have been lost. They are not just statistics.”
