Monaghan is now the worst hit county in Ireland when it comes to Covid-19 infection rates.
The border county has an incidence rate of 581.6 per 100,000 in the last 14 days after 257 cases in that period.
The data from the Department of Health up until midnight, December 31 shows that Monaghan, Donegal, Louth and Limerick are by far the biggest hotspots at the moment with rates of above 500 per 100,000 people.
A further seven counties now have an incidence rate of more than 300, while not one single counties rate is below 100 anymore.
Tipperary remains the lowest rate in the country with 138.5 - here's a look at the incidence rates for every county in the Republic of Ireland right now.
Ireland's Covid-19 incidence rates
County - 14-day incidence rate
Monaghan - 581.6
Donegal - 552.2
Louth - 528.4
Limerick - 506.4
Wexford - 370.7
Cavan - 364.9
Dublin - 358.9
Kilkenny - 351.7
Kerry - 331.1
Mayo - 328.7
Sligo - 309.8
Cork - 289.9
Meath - 284.6
Galway - 281.3
Laois - 271.6
Carlow 268.7
Clare - 234
Roscommon - 223.1
Kildare - 222.5
Westmeath - 209.5
Waterford - 203.1
Longford - 168.8
Offaly - 161.6
Wicklow - 154.5
Leitrim - 143.6
Tipperary - 138.5
Worse case figures to come
As the Covid situation in Ireland increasingly gets out of control health experts are warning that in excess of 9,000 new cases could be confirmed in the next number of days.
Professor Philip Nolan Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group said that given the high volume of tests being carried out each day there is a significant number of cases yet to be reported in official figures by the Health Protection and Surveillance Centre.
He explained that positive tests in labs will have to be confirmed by the HPSC before they are officially reported.
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