12,138 new COVID-19 cases nationally

Galway Bay fm newsroom - A further 12,138 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed.

6,843 are positive PCRs while a further 5,295 are positive antigen tests logged on the HSE website.

There has also been a further 52 Covid-19 deaths in the past week, bringing the overall total here to 6,087.

910 people are in hospital with the virus, 90 of whom are in ICU.