318 people with Covid-19 are being treated in hospital, a jump of over 100 patients in two weeks.
The total has increased by 21 per cent since last Monday, owing to a big jump in admissions between Saturday and yesterday.
60 Covid patients are in intensive care - the highest figure since early April.
Locally, nine people are being treated at Cavan General Hospital have tested positive for Covid.
32 people are being treated at Galway university hospital- the highest in the country after 17 people presented with Covid in the space of 24 hours.
As of 8pm last night, 23 people were being treated at Sligo University hospital for coronavirus, with 16 people at Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda.
11 people in Tullamore and seven in Mullingar are also all being treated for the effects of Covid 1-9.
Sligo and Drogheda are the only two hospital locally with no space left in their ICU for any additional patients.
