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Galway Bay fm newsroom - 28 more people have died after contracting Covid-19 with the death toll now standing at 263.
500 new cases have also been detected in the past 24 hours - the largest number in a single day since the outbreak began.
The total number of positive tests in the Republic is now 6,574.
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