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There have been 4042 new cases of Covid-19 reported in the past week, and 14 further deaths of people with the virus.
Of the new cases, 2569 were reinfections.
There were 162 cases in hospital.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases was 577 per day.
There have been 4666 new cases of Covid-19 reported in the past week, and 20 further deaths attributed to the virus.
Analysis - Since the decoding of the human genome in 2003, we have entered the age of precision prevention, Arindam Basu writes.
The health provider says in the face of an ongoing cost of living crisis most GPs are facing the same problem. Audio
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