The anwser is yes. You can use a sphere packing with very small discs in order to get a covered area arbitrarily close to $\pi/\sqrt 3\sim 1.814$ where $\pi/(2\sqrt{3})$ is the maximal density of a sphere packing in dimension 2, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_packing.
Roland Bacher
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