Dr Ronan Glynn says there's 'no room left for complacency' and has appealed for people to reduce their contacts over the coming week.
A further 430 people have tested positive for coronavirus according to yesterday's figure, the highest since April.
212 were in Dublin and 23 in Donegal, but doctors have voiced concerns about Cork, where there were 54 cases, and Galway where 23 were registered.
The health Minister said yesterday that Wicklow is one of four counties being monitored by the National Public Health Emergency Team.
President of the Infectious Diseases Society, Professor Sam McConkey, says something has to change, or deaths will start to rise:
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