The number of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes has passed 2,000.
The Department of Health will tell an Oireachtas committee today the current figure is 2,009 - which is 44 per cent of all deaths here.
But it will say the number of open outbreaks in these settings has dropped by 62 per cent in the past month. Meanwhile the chair of NPHET's Modelling Group says there is "some concern" around a possible increase in Covid-19 cases in children following the reopening of schools.
However, Professor Philip Nolan says transmission rates remain "very low":
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