The Department of Health has confirmed 3,578 new cases of Covid-19 this evening.
It's the eighth consecutive day the figure has exceeded 3,000.
Meanwhile, 520 Covid patients are in hospital.
That's the highest in over eight months.
Additionally, 83 of those people are in intensive care, up five from yesterday.
The chief medical officer says 44,000 cases have been reported in the past two weeks.
Dr. Tony Holohan says the level of disease is 'really high', and is a 'significant risk' to vulnerable people.
Dr Martin Daly, a former president of the Irish Medical Organisation, fears the upward trend will continue.
"There is a feeling in the medical community and certainly the general practitioner community that we're going to see this rise for a number of weeks yet before we see a plateau, and hopefully some response from this wave of the Covid 19 virus."
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Some Hospitals Are Under Pressure
Meanwhile, the HSE admits hospitals are coping differently nationwide with the high rise in covid cases and other illnesses.
520 patients are in hospital with the virus this evening and 83 are in ICU.
Over 3,000 daily cases of covid have been reported for the past week.
Director of Acute Hospitals at the HSE, Liam Woods, admits some hospitals are coping much better than others.
"When you look at Galway, it's under huge pressure at the moment."
"Cork is under huge pressure."
"Waterford actually has been doing really well."
"Beaumont has been doing very well."
"So there are different capacities available across the country that fundamentally effects, what's happening within our system."
"The availability of egress, or the availability of space outside the hospital is very important in terms of managing that."
