There have been 2,098 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Ireland by the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).
The Department of Health says there are now 251 people in hospital, with 52 of those in ICU.
The figures mark an increase on Thursday's hospital numbers, when 244 patients were being treated for the virus, of which 52 were in ICU.
It comes as 6.54 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered in Ireland to date.
Some 84% of adults are now fully vaccinated, while more than 90% have received at least one dose of the jab.
The CEO of the HSE Paul Reid said the health service is aiming to "close that gap between second and first doses" of the vaccine in the coming weeks.
He added that the HSE is also focusing the rollout of the inoculation on the younger cohort of the population.
"We also want to work through the 12 to 15-year-olds vaccination programme and I am very pleased to say as of today, we now have 130,000 12 to 15-year-olds registered for the vaccine and over 65,000 of those are already completed," he told RTE's News at One.
"So, priorities right now: complete those adults; work through the 16s and 17s which we are working through at the moment; and also complete the vaccination programme for 12- to 15-year-olds and that's the current phase of what we're at."
Meanwhile, a number of Covid-19 outbreaks in hospitals and residential care homes have been linked to unvaccinated healthcare workers, the HSE said.
Although the vast majority of healthcare staff are vaccinated, Professor Martin Cormican, the HSE National Lead for Infection Control, said there are some workers who have still not availed of their jabs.
"We have certainly seen a pattern in a number of instances where we were reasonably satisfied that the outbreak was associated with the introduction of infection by an unvaccinated healthcare worker," Prof Cormican told Newstalk Breakfast.
“Healthcare workers who have been involved in these outbreaks… we all understand they didn’t set out to cause these outbreaks. It’s also fair to say that you can never be quite certain what caused an outbreak.
“This is not about targeting or blaming healthcare workers. But it is important we recognise it’s an issue we need to deal with."
