No Covid-19 patients were reported to have died yesterday for the first day since March -- while 18 further cases were confirmed here.
It's emerged Ireland had more deaths than in a normal year in March and April -- but the Chief Medical Officer says that trend stopped in May.
He was responding to analysis published by the Business Post at the weekend based on death notices.
It argued Ireland's "excess deaths" up to the start of May were higher than in other European countries.
But Dr Tony Holohan says the elevated death rate here hasn't lingered the same way.
"That shows we have had an excess mortality experience in this country, it occurred for the most part over the course of the months of March and April.
"In fact it reduced back to baseline, in other words we have seen no excess mortality in this country since the beginning of May, whereas the excess mortality experience in many other European countries has continued on beyond that point."
