183,000 cases of Covid-19 were recorded by the World Health Organisation up to midnight yesterday - the largest in a single day.
Many of the new cases are in the Americas, South Asia and the Middle East.
There were no coronavirus deaths recorded on the island of Ireland yesterday.
Six new cases were confirmed in the Republic, while a further four tested positive in the North.
Waterford
There were no new cases announced for Waterford, up to midnight on Friday the total since the outbreak began remained at 155.
There is one confirmed case of Covid-19 at University Hospital Waterford.
That's according to the HSE's Daily Operations Update as of 8 o'clock last night and is an increase of 1 since Saturday.
A further two patients were awaiting the results of coronavirus testing.
GP
Dr Mary Favier from the Irish Council of General Practitioners is warning we still have to be on our guard despite the low numbers:
"We really need to appreciate it is always a very infectious virus.
"The advantage at the moment is because there is so little prevalence in the community, the number of cases that have potential to spread is small.
"However, the number of contacts per case is rising so that does reflect that we are getting and about more.
"That does concern me in some of our younger age groups as they start to mix into new groups."
She says people contacting their GP as soon as they have symptoms is key to keeping the virus suppressed:
"Before we would have been telling people look if you have a sore throat, or a runny nose, a cough or a cold look after it yourself perhaps go to your pharmacy, take a few paracetamol and a few extra hours in bed.
"Now we're saying the opposite, if you have any symptoms contact your GP with a view to referral for a test and by capturing the number of cases early we can reduce the number of contacts a person has and really close down the number of cases."
