The Department of Health has confirmed 1,025 new cases of Covid-19 and 2 further deaths.
There have now been a total of 84,098 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 2,194 deaths related to the virus in Ireland.
According to TheJournal.ie “Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said: “I can confirm that we have detected the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 by whole genome sequencing at the National Virus Reference Laboratory in UCD.”
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