A total of 348 more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Ireland, while 41 patients are currently being treated in hospital.
Of these patients, 13 are in ICU.
The latest figures were confirmed by the Department of Health this evening.
Elsewhere, there was mixed news about the reopening of indoor restaurants and pubs with Tanaiste Leo Varadkar casting doubt on the planned July 5 reopening due to the impact of the Delta variant.
Varadkar said: “As things stand, the plan is still to ease restrictions on the fifth of July.
“But as is always the case, that final call, that decision won’t be made until a few days before.
“We’ll take into account four factors.
“One, is the number of cases, which is falling, that’s encouraging. Another is the hospitals, hospital numbers are going down, which is encouraging.
“Third is the vaccine programme, which is going very well, but we’d like to see those second doses given to people earlier, those people given the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“And fourth is concern around variants and that is the dark cloud on the horizon at the moment.”
In terms of the vaccine programme, the HSE has confirmed that younger people in their 20s can expect to receive the first jab at the end of August or in early September.
It comes as people aged 36 are being invited to register online for their vaccine on Wednesday as the programme continues to roll out.
HSE officials have said if supply holds up, they expect to give 300,000 people a jab per week over the next three weeks.
It was confirmed that 900,000 doses will be delivered to Ireland within the next two weeks.
Among those will be Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines which will land in Ireland between June 23 and 30.
However, people in their 20s will be waiting until the end of September until they will be considered fully vaccinated under the current plans.
