604 more people in the Republic have contracted Covid-19, and 13 patients with the virus have died.

The fortnightly national average infection rate has risen to 164.5 per hundred thousand people.

Offaly, Donegal and Dublin have the highest infection rates, with the lowest in Kerry, Cork and Monaghan.

Across the region there are 16 new cases in Galway, ten in Mayo, six in Roscommon, and five in Leitrim.

Sligo was the only county where no case was recorded.