33 More Covid-19 Patients Have Died

It brings the death toll in the Republic to 320

8,928 people have been infected since the pandemic reached Ireland, which includes an extra 286 cases reported by a lab in Germany. 

It's already killed over a hundred thousand people worldwide, and infected 1.7 million. 

Health Minister Simon Harris says after the German lab has cleared a backlog of up to 15-thousand tests, the next step will be to extend the testing criteria. 

Dr. Mary Favier, president of the Irish College of General Practitioners says that will help find infection sooner: