Galway Bay fm newsroom - Galway now has the third lowest incidence rate of Covid-19 nationwide.
The 14-day rate per 100 thousand people is now at 70.9, according to the latest figures.
That's behind Wicklow at 56.9 and Wexford at 37.4.
As of midnight on Wednesday, there were also less than 5 new cases reported in Galway.
The 14-day incidence rates in parts of north Donegal remain the highest in the Republic.
Letterkenny now has the most cases per head of population than anywhere else at 389.4, followed by Buncrana at 384.
Listowel in north Co Kerry had the third-highest rate at 373.2.
The map shows solid red over the border into Co Limerick -- with 277 cases per hundred thousand in Newcastle West.
There are similar infection rates in Rathkeale and in Limerick City East and West.
However, with a rate of 293.6 per hundred thousand, Waterford's south city area was the worst affected part of any urban area.
Tallaght South in Dublin had the highest rate in the capital at 251.
Carrigaline has the highest in Cork City at 170.7.
In the two weeks up to Monday, Corca Dhuibhne in west Co Kerry and the Rosslare area in Co Wexford both had five cases or fewer per hundred thousand.
