BREAKING: National daily Covid-19 case numbers confirmed

As of midnight last night September 6, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre had been notified of 1,470* confirmed cases of COVID-19. As of this morning, there were 367 patients with Covid-19 in hospital, of which 59 are in ICU.

Here in Limerick, provisional data supplied by the Department of Public Health Mid-West revealed there were 46 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Friday, 47 on Saturday, 68 and Sunday, and 23 this Monday.

That is a sharp drop from the last week, with the number of new cases across the last 14 days numbering 912 in Limerick.

Meanwhile, The HSE is urging people to pre-book their test. For more see below.