More than 5,000 Covid-19 cases confirmed for third straight day
Published 5th Dec 2021, 14:47 BST
Updated 5th Dec 2021, 14:55 BST
OVER 5,000 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Ireland for the third day in a row.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has this Sunday been notified of 5,156 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
On Saturday, the figure was 5,622.
As of 8am today, 503 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised, of which 110 are in ICU. On Saturday, there were 487 patients with Covid-19 in hospital with 114 in intensive care.