Healthy officials have announced a further 6,843 confirmed COVID cases.
Meanwhile, 5,295 people registered positive antigen tests on the HSE portal yesterday.
Some 52 new deaths were notified in the past week, taking the country’s COVID death toll to 6,087.
This morning, there were 910 patients in hospital – down 69 on yesterday and 145 on this day last week.
There were 90 in intensive care, which is three fewer than yesterday and two fewer than last week.
When the PCR-confirmed cases and positive antigen tests are combined, the daily cases figure for today is 12,138.
On that basis, the five-day moving average is 13,973.
NPHET is due to meet on Thursday, with Cabinet set to discuss their recommendations on Friday.Businesses and Government backbenchers have called for restrictions to be lifted as soon as this weekend – with hospital figures reducing and ICU figures remaining stable.
The Tánaiste Leo Varadkar yesterday told his Parliamentary Party that he wants to set a March 31st deadline for the removal of almost all legal restrictions – and today he warned that he does not want to see COVID restrictions lifted in “one fell swoop”.
