That’s according to data released by the Department of Health and analysed by the Irish Independent.
Up until midnight on November 22nd there were almost 71,000 cases of Covid 19 confirmed here.
Of those, 11,900 or 23% were healthcare workers.
This is followed by students including school children which made up 3,154 cases or 6.2%
Teachers accounted for 666 confirmed cases.
Food drink and tobacco production workers made up 3.4%, those in sales accounted for 2% while construction workers made up 1.4%.
Gardaí and local government workers accounted for 0.3% of cases
Those workers with the lowest number of infections included textile workers, those in religious occupations and the army.
