233 healthcare workers have tested positive for Covid-19 in the space of two weeks.
Over half of them live in Dublin and nearly 82 per cent are women.
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre says the positive tests were detected in the final two weeks of September.
9,225 healthcare workers have now tested positive for the virus - which is over a quarter of the country's cases.
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