The National Public Health Emergency Team will meet again today amid rising concerns that the progress in tackling Covid-19 nationally appears to have slowed significantly over the past week.
The latest numbers show that new confirmed cases of the virus are running at just over 400 per week, broadly unchanged on the situation one week ago.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said he is becoming increasingly concerned that the progress made during the first three weeks of the Level 5 restrictions has not been maintained.
It is not clear at all why the progress on reducing the incidence of Covid-19 has stalled, but the average number of daily cases has fallen by just eight per day over the past week, compared with reductions averaging