There are another 93 cases of Covid-19 in the Republic and no deaths.
34 of the new cases are Dublin, 7 are in Kildare and the others are spread across 15 other counties.
It brings the total number of cases to 28,453.
The death toll remains at 1,777.
The R number is now between 1 and 1.2 an improvement on what we've seen recently but still not where we want to be, according to Professor Philip Nolan.
