The Department of Health has confirmed 4,929 new cases of Covid-19 and 8 further deaths.
There have now been a total of 152,539 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 2,352 deaths related to the virus in Ireland.
According to rte “Ireland now has the highest daily number of new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the world for every one million people, according to figures published by the Our World in Data organisation.
Ireland’s seven day rolling average is 1,394 cases per million – ahead of the UK on 810, Portugal on 735 and the USA on 653.
The research website is linked to Oxford University.”
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