There have been another 9,881 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Ireland today.

That breaks down as 5,268 PCR-confirmed cases and 4,613 positive antigen test results registered via the HSE portal.

108 COVID-related deaths have also been reported in the past week.

Today’s COVID-19 figures bring the five-day moving average of new cases to 8,334.

Meanwhile, the number of patients in hospital with COVID-19 has fallen slightly over the past 24 hours.

There are 631 patients with the virus in hospital, compared to 637 yesterday.

That includes 62 patients in ICU - down one from yesterday.

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