Five areas have seen another jump in new coronavirus cases in the latest figures released by the Department of Health today.
Health officials confirmed that 772 new infections had been reported over the last 24 hours, while six more people have sadly died.
The latest announcement was made by Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan this evening.
Dublin has seen the biggest increase in new cases once again with 228, followed by Cork with 120.
While there has been 50 new infections in Meath, 41 in Donegal, 41 in Galway and the remaining 292 cases are spread across all remaining counties.
As of 2pm today, 325 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 42 are in ICU. There were 15 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours.
However there is some good news, as experts confirmed Ireland's R number is now down to 1.0.
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said: “The reproduction number is now close to 1.0 nationally.
"This is the first time in a number of weeks that we have been able to report positive indicators of the disease.
"However, our experience to date shows this type of progress is very fragile. We should take these positive signs as an indication our efforts are starting to work, the critical thing now is to keep it up, the virus will seek out any opportunity to spread; over the next weeks let’s make sure we don’t give it that opportunity, by driving R and case numbers as low as possible.”
Here is a full county-by-county breakdown of today's cases:
Cavan - 16
Meath - 50
Westmeath - 24
Sligo - 9
Galway - 41
Cork - 120
Donegal - 41
Limerick - 38
Monaghan - 12
Longford - 8
Kildare - 37
Louth - 29
Carlow - Less than 5
Kerry - 13
Clare - 14
Dublin - 228
Wexford - Less than 5
Roscommon - 13
Mayo - 18
Offaly - 14
Laois - 11
Waterford - 12
Kilkenny - 5
Wicklow - 9
Tipperary - Less than 5, and
Leitrim - Less than 5.
