The National Public Health Emergency Team meets again today to consider a new risk assessment and guidelines for tackling the Covid-19 pandemic.
It will also consider warnings from the European Centre for Disease Control that the health system here may not be able to cope with rising numbers of coronavirus patients in critical condition.
Last night, the Department of Health announced that two more patients diagnosed with Covid-19 had died. It brings the total number of deaths in Ireland to nine.
There were an additional 235 confirmed cases of the virus in Ireland and 1,564 in total. Many of the new ECDC measures have already been included in the raft of social distancing and other changes implemented by the Government on Tuesday.