Some good news again this Bank hoilday Monday is that County Donegal has now gone 12 days without any new cases of Covid 19 .

Co.Sligo leads the way with no new cases reported in the last 17 days followed by Kerry who have had no cases in 14 days.

Wexford have had no positive tests in 13 days with Offaly now 7 days with no cases

Eight more people have died from Covid-19 in Ireland bringing the overall death toll to 1,658.

Ten more cases of the coronavirus have also been diagnosed in the Republic, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 25,066.

The Chief Medical Officer said the median age of incident cases is about 48 years of age, up from mid-40s.

The median age of people in ICU is in the early 60s.

The median age of deaths overall is 84.

Dr Holohan said that of the 500 or so cases that have occurred in the past week, about half would have been cases that have arisen in the past week.

He said that half of those again would be cases that are not linked to known clusters in settings such as residential care or meat factories.

Dr Holohan said this means that about a quarter of the cases reported in the past week would have occurred in the community without a link to a known cluster.

Dr Cillian De Gascun, Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory, said the number of tests being carried out has reduced.

He said of a total of 348,416 tests, only 22,621 of those were done in the last week.

He said the positive number is 389, a positivity rate of 1.7%.

He said the "good news is the positivity rate is still going down" and a decline is also being seen in the number of referrals through GPs and those who have symptoms are being encouraged to contact their GP.

Dr De Gascun said that approximately 40-45% of the tests carried out were as a result of GP referrals, with the remainder in hospital settings.

The Deputy Chief Medical Officer said those with Covid-19 symptoms should isolate, contact their GP and be tested if necessary.

Dr Ronan Glynn said that for almost 50% of people, it is taking four days from when they first develop symptoms until they are tested and "we need to reduce that down as much as possible".

In Northern Ireland, there has been a further two deaths due to the coronavirus, bringing the total number of recorded hospital deaths to 526.

Four new cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the region to 4,732.