A further 467 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Ireland.
Meanwhile 99 people are currently in hospital with Covid-19, 38 of which are in ICU.
The figures were confirmed by the Department of Health this evening ahead of Taoiseach Micheal Martins latest announcement on Covid restrictions.
Cabinet met today to sign-off on the easing of a raft of Covid-19 measures as plans are laid out for the summer reopening of the country.
Cabinet has given the green light to let people back inside pubs from July 5.
The Government has also approved the reopening of international travel from July 19 and the lifting of a load more lockdown restrictions.
Cinemas and gyms are back in business from Monday week, June 7th, and sports fans can finally get back into stadiums and grounds to cheer on their teams from next month too.
Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, earlier said that people would see news of a reopening at a pace “beyond expectations” and the Government has come good on that.
Mr Donnelly earlier said that the latest lifting of restrictions was all down to the public’s “fantastic” adherence to public health guidelines - and the success of the vaccine rollout programme.
He was speaking on his way into the crunch Cabinet meeting in Dublin Castle.
It is now confirmed that the skies will reopen for international travel before the end of July, on July 19th under the new EU Digital Green Cert rules.
This will allow sunseekers to jet away to European resorts for long-needed breaks, and it will open up our unrivalled tourist attractions here to international visitors.
It will also allow family members living abroad to see loved ones after months of being apart.
The Government is to adopt the EU’s new Cert from July 19th and American tourists will be able to come here from then as the US will be included as a ‘partner’ country.
Mr Donnelly said: “I think that if Cabinet agree today broadly to the proposals (it did) we are opening at a pace that is beyond most people’s expectations.
