The Department of Health has confirmed a further 25 people with Covid-19 have died in Ireland bringing the overall death toll to 235.

365 more cases of the coronavirus have also been diagnosed in the Republic, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 6,074.

The total of deaths in Northern Ireland has now risen to 78, as 84 new cases of the disease were confirmed, bringing the total figure to 1,339.

To date, 9,564 people in the Northern have been tested.

13 deaths located in the East, 8 in the North, 2 in the South and 2 in the West of the country.

The deaths included 10 females and 15 males, with the median age of 80.

18 people were reported as having underlying health conditions.

Today's figures are as of midnight on Monday, 6 April.

Of those figures, 46% are male and 53% are female, with 299 clusters involving 1,288 cases.

The median age of confirmed cases is 48 years; 1,472 cases (25%) have been hospitalised and of those hospitalised, 224 cases have been admitted to ICU.

There is now 120 cases in Donegal up 6 from Tuesday 8th April 2020

1,568 cases are associated with healthcare workers.

Dublin has the highest number of cases at 3,268, (55% of all cases) followed by Cork with 431 cases (7%)

Of those where transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 67%, close contact accounts for 23%, travel abroad accounts for 10%.

Minister Harris said this weekend will not be a normal Easter. He noted that we have already gone through an abnormal Mother's Day and an abnormal St Patrick's Day and that sadly this Easter going to have to be the same.

Around 80% of cases of Covid-19 will be a mild to moderate illness, close to 14% have severe disease and around 6% are critical.

Generally, you need to be 15 minutes or more in the vicinity of an infected person, within two metres, to be considered at-risk or a close contact.

He said the disease is still here, it still represents a risk to people and is being transmitted at a rate that gives concern.

Dr Holohan said we are not at a point yet where we are ready as a society to step back from the collective effort we have made.

Despite the good weather and bank holiday weekend, Dr Holohan said we must continue to double down on measures in place to interrupt the transmission of the infection.