There have been 247 new cases of coronavirus in Ireland.
However no new deaths have been reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC).
There has now been a total of 1,792 COVID-19 related deaths and 32,538 confirmed cases in Ireland.
Of the cases notified on Saturday:
- 142 are men / 129 are women
- 65% are under 45 years of age
- 52% are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case
- 52 cases have been identified as community transmission
Some 166 cases were in Dublin, 21 in Cork, 19 in Donegal, seven in Kildare, seven in Offaly, six in Waterford, six in Wicklow, five in Louth, five in Limerick and five in Meath.
The remaining 27 cases are located across 12 counties.
There are also 74 cases in hospital and 16 confirmed cases in ICU.
It comes as Dublin is in its first full day of level three COVID-19 restrictions.
Earlier Dr Kevin Kelleher, a member of NPHET, told Newstalk Breakfast they decided to put the capital at 'the end edges' of level three.
"It's always going to happen in a household if somebody comes in with a case, that's an absolute inevitability almost that there will be some transmission.
"But what is more important is trying to make sure that there aren't people coming back into the house with the disease from outside.
"And that's what we're trying to break, we're trying to break that, that there is less and less of the disease in the community".
"This discussion was quite wide-ranging, but clearly we came down with the decision we came down with at the time: that we should move Dublin to level three, and that there are certain circumstances we should go to the end edges of what level three permitted".
He explained: "The main issue... is we have to reduce the amount of social interaction in Ireland generally, Dublin more specifically at the moment, to try and reduce the acceleration of the disease and even hopefully to bring it back down.
"It is vital for us: we are out there trying to maintain certain aspects of our society - particularly education, certain industries, key industries into the system."
