There had been 100 extra hospitalisations over the previous 24 hours. In addition, eight new deaths were reported. Of the cases reported yesterday, 2,088 were in Dublin, 862 in Cork, 469 in Limerick, 405 in Wexford, 320 in Waterford and the remaining cases were spread across all other counties. “Early this week, we will likely be at double what we had in the peak of last year,” Mr Reid said yesterday, adding there was concern at the rising trend. He said there were 37 vacant adult ICU beds and 11 vacant pediatric ICU beds across the health system yesterday morning. Speaking on RTE’s This Week, he said a ‘surge’ agreement reached with private hospitals to access beds and give further capacity for patients had already been triggered.