Ireland's seven-day Covid-19 rate is now the worst in the world per million people after the post Christmas spike.
Figures published by the Our World in Data organisation show Ireland now has a daily rate of 1,394 cases per million.
The UK's rate, despite the staggering daily jumps there, is 810, while the USA's is 653.
Meanwhile, Leo Varadkar has said that the hospitality sector is unlikely to return before the end of March in a grim new lockdown update.
While Taoiseach Micheal Martin suggested that the government had no plans to implement curfews, insisting that most members of the public co-operate with the current restrictions.
Ireland is currently under a Level Five lockdown, the tightest form of restrictions under the Living with Covid plan.
And the Government is set to reevaluate these measures at the end of the month, with the Tanaiste suggesting they were likely to be extended.
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