The Department of Health has announced that a further five people who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Ireland have died.
It brings the death toll here due to the virus to 1,705, after five deaths were denotified following the validation of figures from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
The Department has also announced an additional 46 confirmed cases, bringing the total number of cases here to 25,295.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said in a statement that the increase in notifications of new cases today, was not an increase in the daily incidence of the disease. He said all indicators of the disease were stable or reducing.
The statement says 22 of the 46 confirmed cases today were samples that were taken on Monday and Tuesday, and should ordinarily have been reported on Thursday and Friday.
However, it is understood these samples needed further validation in the laboratory to confirm that they were indeed positive. This led to a delay in notifying them until today.
Twelve of the confirmed cases should have been reported in Thursday's figures and ten should have been in Friday's figures.
This would have meant that there would have been 20 new cases on Thursday (instead of eight), 23 new cases yesterday (instead of 13) and 24 new cases today (instead of 46).
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn said today's figures were not a cause for concern. He said health officials look at a five to seven-day rolling average and there was currently no cause for concern in those figures.
Latest figures from the department show that of the 25,249 cases confirmed as of midnight last Thursday, 3,276 cases - or 13% - have required hospitalisation.
Of these, 416 cases have been admitted to intensive care.
Healthcare workers account for 8,123 cases, over 30%.
The median age of cases so far is 48, with a split of 57% female, and 43% male.
Dublin has the highest number of cases at 12,179 (48% of all cases) followed by Cork with 1,533 cases (6%) and then Kildare with 1,426 cases (6%).
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Latest figures from the HSE show that as of last night, there were 79 patients with confirmed cases of Covid-19 in hospitals. This is down from 123 cases this time last week.
There are 168 patients with suspected cases of the disease, compared to 223 a week ago.
There were 27 patients in intensive care with confirmed cases - ten fewer than last week - and 11 with suspected cases, an increase of one from last week.
There are currently 88 critical care beds available in the country's 29 acute hospitals and 763 general beds available.
Separate figures from the HSE show that the average number of close contacts from a confirmed case of Covid-19 has risen to almost six. It is now almost at the same level as seen in early April.
It is taking an average of 1.2 days for tests to be completed. The average time for contact tracing to be completed is 2.1 days.
Meanwhile, there have been two further deaths linked to the virus in Northern Ireland, taking the official Department of Health total to 541.
There are three new additional cases of Covid-19, bringing total to 4,841 in Northern Ireland.
Separately, figures from the Central Statistics Office yesterday show that Dublin continues to be the county worst hit by Covid-19. There were 11 deaths in Dublin last week and it is the only county to record more than five new deaths each week for the past four weeks.
For the sixth week in a row, Sligo and Waterford have recorded under 10 new cases. Donegal, Laois and Kerry have all recorded less than ten for the fifth week in a row.
And Clare, Leitrim, Longford, Tipperary, Wexford and Wicklow have recorded fewer than ten new cases for the fourth week in a row.
The week ending 5 June, was the first week Dublin had less than 100 cases in a week, since the start of March.
Dublin had 54 new cases in that week, down from a peak of 1,869 in the week just before the Covid-19 restrictions began.
