By Cillian Doyle.
A further 604 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded and 13 more deaths.
In the South East,
26 of them are in Tipperary - the highest case figure in the region.
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It's followed by 18 in Wexford while Waterford, Carlow and Kilkenny have fewer than 5 new cases each.
The fortnightly national average infection rate has risen to 164.5 per hundred thousand people.