THE Department of Health has confirmed 1,098 new cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
Health officials say that there are 163 patients in Ireland’s hospitals receiving treatment for Covid-19.
Of those, 26 are in intensive care settings.
In Northern Ireland,a further five Covid-19 related deaths and 1,072 new cases were confirmed.
These figures comes as the HSE said that 10,000 people availed of the Covid-19 vaccination centres in Ireland yesterday.
To date, almost 5.8 million vaccine doses have been administered. Just under 87% of the adult population are partially vaccinated, while almost 73% are fully vaccinated.