Two hundred further cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed today -- a situation the country's top public health official is calling "deeply concerning".

Dr Ronan Glynn says it's the highest daily increase in numbers since May, with "multiple clusters" identified where there has been a secondary spread of the disease.

81 people have tested positive in Kildare, 56 in Dublin, 13 in Tipperary, 8 in Limerick, 6 each in Laois and Galway, and five each in Kilkenny and Meath and the rest of the 20 cases are in Carlow, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Louth, Mayo, Offaly, Roscommon, Waterford, Wicklow.

There were no further deaths reported among patients, but today's data brings the total infected in the Republic past 27-thousand for the first time.