There have been 138 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the Republic, according to the Department of Health.
The latest figures bring the total amount of cases here to 29,672.
No further deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, meaning the number of coronavirus-related deaths here stands at 1,777.
Of the latest cases, 67% concern people who are under 45 years of age.
39% are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case while 23 cases have been identified as community transmission.
Regarding the new cases, 68 are in Dublin, 13 are in Limerick, and there are nine in both Galway and Kildare.
There are five cases each in Cork, Wexford, and Wicklow.
The remaining 24 cases are spread across Carlow, Clare, Donegal, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Meath, Offaly, Roscommon, Tipperary, Waterford, and Westmeath.
Redouble our efforts
Meanwhile, the HSE's Chief Clinical Officer says the potential for an "apartheid society" can be avoided if people redouble their efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Dr Colm Henry also warned that Ireland must avoid an "overwhelmed" hospital system this winter.
Speaking on Newstalk's On The Record with Gavan Reilly programme today, said we should increase our efforts so "we can protect older people, and not create some sort of apartheid society when there's one set of rules for older people and one set of rules for younger people".
He said: "There have been 48 today with six patients in ICU and a small but steady increase in the number of older people and this is a reminder of how transmissible this virus is."
He added that "we cannot face an overwhelmed hospital system and we cannot face levels of congestion in our emergency departments like we saw in previous years".
