Covid-19: Five further deaths, 270 new cases confirmed in Ireland

Speaking this evening, Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan said that "individual actions" remained "vital to our national effort to suppress the transmission of this disease." File Picture: Colin Keegan/ Collins Dublin

A further five people have died as a result of contracting Covid-19, health officials have confirmed.

There has now been a total of 2,074 Covid-19-related deaths in Ireland since the outbreak began.