An immunology expert expects the number of Covid-19 deaths to decrease in the coming weeks.
It's after 101 additional deaths were confirmed yesterday, the highest daily figure reported since the beginning of the pandemic.
The number of people hospitalised has decreased by 20 per cent since this day last week to 1,367.
However there are still almost 500 more people in hospital with the virus now, that during the previous peak in April.
Professor of Experimental Immunology at Trinity College Dublin, Kingston Mills says an increase in the number of deaths was expected.
It's after high number of hospital admissions over Christmas.
