The Minister for Health Simon Harris has warned that allowing complacency to set in, in efforts to combat Covid-19, could be disastrous and potentially fatal.

Minister Harris is appealing to the general public to continue adhering to the restrictions, amid encouraging signs that the situation in Ireland is stabilising.

Hospital admissions fell for the third day in a row yesterday and ICU admissions remain relatively stable.

However, latest figures show 610 people have now died in the Republic from Covid 19, while there are more than 15 thousand confirmed cases.
39 people with the virus died yesterday, 2 of those deaths were in the west.

The number of confirmed cases of the virus in Mayo now stands at 312, in Galway there are 283 cases, and 76 confirmed cases in both Sligo and Roscommon.