A further 35 deaths and an additional 1,047 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed this evening by the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet)
They said 29 of the deaths occurred in February, while six occurred in January.
The median age of those who died is 84 years and the age range is 63-96 years.
There has now been a total of 3,621 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland and with over 1,000 new cases this evening, it means there is a total of 201,763 confirmed cases of the virus in the country.
Nphet said of the cases notified today: 505 are men and 540 are women, 58 per cent are under 45 years of age and the median age is 38 years old
Regarding the location of tonight's cases, there are 39 in Waterford, 292 in Dublin, 119 in Cork, 76 in Wexford, 60 in Limerick, 47 in Kildare and the remaining cases are spread across all other counties.
Waterford has the third-highest incidence rate of the virus in the country at 533.7 per 100,000 of the population and there have been 620 cases over the past 14 days.
The latest Covid-19 data from local electoral areas (LEA) has been released and the levels of the virus is continuing to fall in Waterford.
The latest breakdown by local electoral area shows a drop of between 25 per cent and 35 per cent in most areas.
Nphet said as of 2pm today, 1,221 Covid-19 patients are hospitalised and 181 are in ICU. 51 additional hospitalisations happened in the past 24 hours.
Speaking about this evening's figures, Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer said: “No single intervention is perfect at preventing the spread of Covid-19, it takes many different individual actions to slow down the spread of the disease.
"Every action you take is another layer of protection between you and the virus - the more layers you have the more protection you have.”
“Public health measures are based on this principle. Keep physical distance from others, wash hands regularly, avoid crowds, wear face coverings and vaccines all provide you with layers of defence against COVID-19.”
