The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 3,793 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
As of 8am today, 578 COVID-19 patients are hospitalised, of whom 117 are in ICU.
There has been a total of 5,707 deaths related to COVID-19 notified in Ireland. This includes 55 deaths newly notified in the past week (since last Wednesday).
The latest update comes hours after NPHET confirmed a case of the Omicron variant had been recorded here.
Health officials confirmed the news at a briefing on Wednesday afternoon.
No exact location has been confirmed but Dr Cillian De Gascun, Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory and member of NPHET, said it is a "current case".
Dr De Gascun said that genome sequencing was carried out on eight cases, with the Omicron variant detected in one of these.
He said: "It is a travel-associated case (from one of the countries affected).
"It was identified in the last week, so it is a current case."
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