Nine more Covid-19 deaths and 37 new cases

NINE more people have died from Covid-19 in the Republic of Ireland today.

The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) reported the nine deaths to take Ireland’s death toll beyond 1,600.

Ireland’s death toll is now 1,606.

Monday was the first day in two months that no new Covid-19 related deaths were reported in Ireland.

There have been 37 new cases of the coronavirus identified. Since the outbreak, there have been 24,735 infections.

In the last 24 hours, there has been one new admission of a Covid-19 patient to an intensive care unit.