NPHET urging people not to have takeaway pints or buy 'cans' on St Patrick's Day tomorrow

It has also raised concerns about Covid-19 hospital admissions.

There were 360 people with the virus in hospital yesterday, after the number rose for two days in a row. 

85 are in ICU, while 575 new cases were confirmed yesterday and no additional deaths. 

Professor Philip Nolan, who chairs NPHET's modelling group, says he's concerned at the hospital situation:

"The number of new admissions per day to hospital, or new confirmations in hospital has been static at 20 to 25 for the last two weeks. Fortunately, the number of people in intensive care continues to decline and the number of admissions to intensive care continues to decline as to the number of deaths reported per day."