The highest number since February.
Over a thousand people with Covid are in hospital for the first time since last February.
There are 1,004 patients being treated - an increase of 20 since yesterday.
82 people with the virus are in intensive care,down one.
HSE chief executive Paul Reid says the hospital numbers may not have peaked yet:

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