Almost 12,000 new Covid cases have been confirmed in Ireland amid concern about how the current surge could impact hospital numbers.
Officials reported 5,263 positive PCR tests and 6,466 positive antigen tests on Monday. There are 1,624 patients in hospital with Covid - a rise of 56 on Sunday - and of those, 54 are in ICU.
However, senior Government sources have told the Irish Mirror that they would expect up to 2,000 people in hospital “in the next week.”
