The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 5,649 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19.
In addition, on Tuesday 8 February, 5,387 people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal.
There has been a total of 6,291 deaths related to COVID-19 notified in Ireland. This includes 63 deaths newly notified in the past week (since last Wednesday).
As of this morning, there were 399 Covid-19 inpatients in hospital, with 15 in intensive care.