NPHET is meeting today to discuss the impact of level 5.
An immunologist believes we are on track to come out of lockdown as scheduled in December.
The National Public Health Emergency Team is meeting today to discuss the impact of Level 5 restrictions which are entering their third week.
While the reproduction rate of Covid-19 has fallen below one, but the Taoiseach has told his party, restrictions are unlikely to be lifted until the full six weeks are up.
Professor Kingston Mills from Trinity College believes we’re on track to exit lockdown by December.
''We are (on track), we're actually doing better than most countries in Europe, there's only 5 countries better than us in terms of numbers per hundred thousand which is a critical statistic'', he said.
''I think the key thing is that while we've done a great job in getting those numbers down, we've got to keep them down''.
Last night there was an additional eight deaths related to Covid in the Republic, while 444 new confirmed cases of the virus were announced.
While there were 310 Covid patients hospitalised, of which 41 are in ICU.
