288 people here have now lost their lives to COVID-19.
A further 25 patients were confirmed to have died on Friday, while 480 new cases have been diagnosed.
Updated figures show there are now 8,089 confirmed cases, after more than 1,000 of the 15,000 tests sent to German labs came back positive.
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More than 2,000 people who tested positive for coronavirus died across the US on Friday - the highest number of fatalities seen so far.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in America has exceeded 500,000.
But US President Donald Trump says the country is prepared to deal with the pandemic.
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A man has been arrested after barricading himself into a house in Co Sligo with access to guns.
The incident began in Calry on Friday evening and lasted around four hours, before being resolved peacefully just before 11.00pm.
It is believed there was no one else in the house at the time and nobody was injured.
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Gardaí are carrying out further searches at a housing estate in Dublin where partial skeletal remains have been found.
The discovery was made during works on a site at the Lissenfield Estate in Rathmines on Thursday evening.
It is believed the remains have been there for some time, and could be between five and 20 years old.
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The anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic will not be remembered publicly in Co Cork this year because of the coronavirus crisis.
A single floral tribute will be placed on the Titanic Memorial in Cobh town square instead, to honour all those who died in the tragedy 108 years ago.
Some 123 passengers embarked from Cobh - which was then known as Queenstown - 79 of them lost their lives.
