Another 1,179 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Ireland in the last 24 hours.
The Department of Health announced this afternoon there are 91 people in hospital with another 22 in ICU.
It comes after HSE Chief Paul Reid said the country is in for a "bumpy" road in the coming weeks with the Delta variant.
The HSE Chief said: "A bumpy journey for the next few weeks in terms of #Delta. Thankfully community positivity from testing reduced yesterday from 8.4% to 6.7%. Now 77% of people partially vaccinated and almost 64% fully. A white knuckle ride of vaccines versus Delta but let's get there."
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin echoed this message on Saturday and said he will be meeting with NPHET this week to plan for August and September.
Mr Martin said: "The situation is serious in regards to Delta and all of us have to be vigilant in terms of our individual behaviours because this is a further twist in the road of Covid-19 and there will be high volumes of case numbers, which will continue to grow.
"We're going to keep a very close eye on the hospitalisations that results from that and the illness that results from that."
