One further death and 21 new cases of Covid-19 were announced this evening.
The number of confirmed cases now stands at 25,698 and the death toll stands at 1,749.
Validation of data at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre has resulted in the denotification of six confirmed cases. The figure of 25,698 confirmed cases reflects this.
The Department of Health revealed the latest figures this evening.
Ireland has seen a recent spike in cases, with the reproduction number (R-number) also climbing.
The Minister for Health this morning warned that the R rate is somewhere between 1.2 and 1.8 which could see a signifcant rise in cases in the coming weeks.
This evening it's estimated that the R-number stands around 1.4.
Professor Philip Nolan, Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, said; “Our best estimate of the R-number currently stands at 1.4 but it could be as high as 1.8. We have an opportunity now to maintain suppression of the virus.”
Minister Stephen Donnelly anticipated as many as 160 cases per day in mid-August after a "big jump" in recent days.
He told Morning Ireland on RTE Radio One: "This R number, which we're all very focused on, has gone above one. They (NPHET) believe it's somewhere between 1.2 and 1.8.
"If it's 1.8, they believe within about three weeks we could be up to 150 to 160 cases per day, which is obviously a completely different place we don't want to be in."
The last time Ireland's cases figures surpassed 100 even was all the way back on May 22 when they hit 115.
The numbers of more than 20 cases per day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday was the first time since the first week of June that cases have risen by more than 20 consecutively.
With just 14 cases on Wednesday however and the decision not to open pubs and bars it is hoped a second wave hasn't already been sparked.
At the disease's peak in Ireland there were 936 cases in a single day on April 23.
You can check out all the latest curves and figures on the Government's official data hub here.
