Number of Covid-19 cases in hospitals continues to drop

The number of Covid-19 patients in Irish hospitals has fallen to its lowest point since mid-September last year.

There are 69 people with the virus on wards, down 29 per cent on last week.

In ICU there's a similar trend - last night there were 26 patients. That's 25 per cent fewer patients in the same period.

The five-day moving average of cases has gone up slightly in the past seven days to 424.