Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) data up to last Friday, August 16th shows there were 587 cases last week, 238 people needed to be hospitalised, two were admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU) and there was one death. 

An audit of the country's intensive care units shows they are operating at near max capacity

The young girl who was seriously injured in a knife attack in Dublin's Parnell Square has returned to ICU