The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in hospitals has reduced by 14 to 327, according to the latest figures.

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in hospitals has reduced by 14 to 327, according to the latest figures.
Of these, 38 patients remain in intensive care units.
The ICU number has remained stable for several days.
The Chief Medical Officer has said Ireland can lower the number of cases of Covid-19 quickly, if those who have symptoms or test positive self-isolate and everyone else limits their contacts.
However, Dr Tony Holohan said it was too early to say the country had turned a corner following the introduction of Level 5 restrictions last week.
There were fewer than 1,000 new cases of Covid-19 on three of the last four days, he said, and the positivity rate was slightly lower at 5.7%.
Dr Holohan said numbers were moving in the direction public health authorities wanted them to but it was definitely not at the stage where they could say Ireland had turned a corner.
The country would see significant suppression of the virus in the next weeks and he hoped it would be suppressed low enough.
The National Public Health Emergency Team also warned that deaths had more than doubled this month compared to September.
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Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said on Twitter last night that while it was “too early to say we’ve turned a corner” there were “some positive indicators that give hope”.
He said cases per 100,000 over the past seven days suggest cases are falling in most counties and also pointed to the positivity rate of tests having dropped to 5.7%. 
Too early to say we’ve turned a corner but some positive indicators that give hopeCases per 100,000 over past 7 days suggest cases are falling in most countiesPositivity rate of tests has dropped to 5.7%A lot more to do but our individual actions are having an effect.
— Stephen Donnelly (@DonnellyStephen) October 27, 2020
“A lot more to do but our individual actions are having an effect,” said Mr Donnelly.
Dr Holohan said he believed the contact tracing system was robust.
He said the breakdown in the system just over a week ago as well as staff shortages in the National Virus Reference Laboratory were not a factor in the slightly lower figures.
Although he said it was possible some close contacts would not be detected because of the problems.
But he said he had “some hope and optimism” about the progress the country could make.
If people who tested positive self-isolated and everyone else limited their contacts, he said, the country could get back to low levels of cases quickly.
Yesterday, the Department of Health confirmed 720 new cases of coronavirus and five further Covid-related deaths.
This brings the total number of cases here to 58,767 and includes the denotification of 20 previously confirmed cases.
There has been a total of 1,890 Covid-19 related deaths in Ireland.
Reporting Fergal Bowers and Orla O’Donnell