The level of Covid-19 has fallen by at least 20 percent in every local electoral area in Waterford.
However, Waterford City and its surrounding areas continue to have incidence rates above the national average.
Waterford City South had 117 cases in the two weeks ending on Monday, February 8th to give an incidence rate of 520. That's a drop of a third in a week.
There was a similar fall in Waterford City East from 170 to 110 cases. The number of cases in Tramore Waterford City dropped by a quarter to 110 to give a rate of 491.
Dungarvan saw a fall of nearly one third from 82 to 55. Meanwhile, the numbers were down by 20% in both Portlaw/Kilmacthomas and Lismore. It dropped from 61 to 48 in Portlaw and from 19 to 15 in Lismore.
The Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart local electoral area in Dublin has the highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in the country.
As of Monday, its 14-day rate was 756 per 100,000 people - over twice the national average of 319.
Enniscorthy LEA in Co Wexford and Monaghan LEA were the second and third highest, both with rates of over 750.
Hospitals
The number of people catching Covid-19 in hospital has fallen by nearly two thirds since the peak of the third wave, according to Professor Phillip Nolan, chair of NPHET’s modelling group.
Yesterday it was confirmed a further 52 people with the virus have died with 866 more people testing positive, 26 of those cases in Waterford.
Nationally, the number of people with Covid being treated in hospital is down again to 943 – with 167 in intensive care.
Of these six are in the ICU at University Hospital Waterford where the number of cases at the hospital has fallen to 48. There were 71 cases as of 8pm on Wednesday evening.
