The Shannonside region has some outliers in terms of high incidence rates.

Longford is one of eight counties where low rates of vaccine have been recorded.

Schools are back after the midterm break and there is growing worry over the high number of cases in young people.

It comes as the number of health staff out of work due to covid related illnesses has almost doubled to 3,500 in the past 10 day

Hospital numbers continue to fall.

Backlogs in testing was one of the reasons contact tracing for students was shelved in September.

97 Covid patients are in intensive care, down two from yesterday.

The number in ICU has also gone up slightly since this day last week.