A total of 242 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Ireland, while 67 patients are being treated in hospital.
23 people are in ICU with Covid-19.
The figures were confirmed by the Department of Health this afternoon.
It comes as pharmacies will start to offer the single-shot Johnson and Johnson jab to the over-50s from today.
Deliveries of about 60,000 vaccines are expected at around 1,300 participating businesses.
Irish Pharmacy Union chief Darragh O’Loughlin told Newstalk Breakfast Weekends: “The Janssen, or Johnson and Johnson, vaccine will be delivered to 700 or 800 pharmacies around the country in the coming days.
"Those will be available for anyone over the age of 50 who hasn’t already been vaccinated, whether or not they registered on the HSE portal.
“Then in a couple of weeks a smaller number of pharmacies, mostly those that are not too close to vaccination centres, will have the Pfizer vaccine and they’ll be using that in the same way as the vaccination centres and GPs as part of the national vaccination programme.”
Eligible people can book a vaccine appointment directly with a pharmacist or check a list of participating pharmacies on the Health Service Executive website.
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