It comes as another 6,735 cases of coronavirus are recorded in the Republic of Ireland on Monday.
The positivity rate among people who have recently taken a test for coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland is 49.7%
According to estimates from the Irish health department, about 87% of cases being reported were of the Omicron variant. But he said it was "almost impossible" to sustain the level of demand for testing being driven by "high level of disease in the community".
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