County Donegal has now gone 17 days without any new cases of Covid 19 which is very positive for the northwest as Co.Sligo leads the way with no new cases reported in the last 22 days.

County Kerry have had no positive cases in 19 days

The Department of Health has confirmed that one more person has died from Covid-19. There have now been a total of 1,679 coronavirus-related deaths in Ireland.

There have also been 25 new cases confirmed, bringing the total number of cases here to 25,201.

There were no Covid-19 fatalities reported in Northern Ireland over the past 24 hours and the death toll there remains at 537. Six new cases were confirmed, bringing the total cases there to 4,796.

Over 8,025 cases have been associated with healthcare workers, accounting for around 32% of all cases so far.

The median age of cases so far is 48, with a split of 57% female, and 43% male.

Dublin has the highest number of cases with 12,109 (48% of all cases), followed by Cork and Kildare.

The latest detailed data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, dating from midnight, Friday 5 June (relating to 25,176 cases), reveals that 57% are female and 43% are male with a median age of 48.

3,321 people (13% of cases) have been hospitalised, 409 of whom were admitted to ICU. There are 8,057 cases associated with healthcare workers.

Dublin has the highest number of cases at 12,139 (48% of all cases) followed by Cork with 1,529 cases (6%) and then Kildare with 1,428 cases (6%).

Of those for whom transmission status is known: community transmission accounts for 39%, close contact accounts for 59%, travel abroad accounts for 2%.

Earlier today it was revealed that the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen again but the average number of close contacts per confirmed case of the disease has risen, according to the latest figures from the HSE.

As of last night, there were 312 people in hospital with confirmed or suspected cases of the disease - down from 346 people the previous night.

There were 124 confirmed cases and 188 suspected cases.

The Mater Hospital continues to have the highest number of patients, with 31 confirmed cases. There were 19 confirmed cases in Tallaght Hospital and 11 in University Hospital Limerick.

The number of people in intensive care has also fallen. There were 36 patients with confirmed cases of Covid-19 in intensive care last night and five with suspected cases.

That is down from 37 confirmed cases and 10 suspected cases yesterday.

There were no deaths in intensive care in the previous 24 hours.

Further data from the HSE shows that the average number of close contacts per confirmed case of Covid-19 has risen in the first week of June.

The average number of close contacts was under three for most of April, but rose to over three towards the end of May and has risen to more than four this month.

The Minister for Health yesterday appealed to people to limit their close contacts as further restrictions are lifted from tomorrow.