The cases are spread across 26 counties.
A further five people have passed away due to Covid-19 in Ireland today, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre has confirmed.
This means there has been a total of 1,816 COVID-19 related deaths in Ireland.
Meanwhile an additional 611 new cases of the virus were announced.
Of the cases notified today;
- 303 are men / 305 are women
- 59% are under 45 years of age
- 50% are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case
- 83 cases have been identified as community transmission
- 218 in Dublin, 63 in Cork, 60 in Donegal, 35 in Galway, 31 in Kildare and the remaining 204 are located across 21 counties.
There is now a total of 39,584 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland
Dr. Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, said; “All key indicators of the disease have deteriorated further in the three days since the last meeting of NPHET on Sunday 4th October. COVID-19 is spreading in our community in a very worrying manner. We have to break these chains of transmission.”
“80 COVID-19 cases were hospitalised in August, 206 in September and 77 so far in October.
“In August, 4 COVID-19 related deaths in total were reported, 34 in September and today on the 7th of October we report 8 COVID-19 related deaths this month.”
