Most of them were in the three counties put under lockdown
It's the largest number of confirmed cases reported in Ireland in one day since May, and brings the total number infected to date in Ireland to over 26-thousand six hundred.
Another patient infected with the virus has also died.
Some locals and business owners in the three counties put under the renewed restrictions expressed frustration at the move yesterday.
But health minister Stephen Donnelly says he had to act early to stop the virus spreading to the wider community there:
