3 more deaths have been confirmed by the Dept of Health
254 of the cases are in Dublin, with 102 in Meath, 88 here in Cork, 81 in Cavan and 75 in Galway.
The remaining 400 are spread across 20 different counties.
There have been almost 2,300 cases confirmed across the island of Ireland today, with a record 1,299 in the North.
Professor Emer Shelley, from the Royal College of Physicians, says the figures are very worrying:
