A second wave of Covid-19 is 'not inevitable' in this country, according to the chief medical officer.
The death toll has risen to 1,658, after a further 8 people died, while 10 new cases have been confirmed - the lowest daily increase since early March.
500 cases have been detected during the past week across 21 counties, with more than half involving people aged between 24 and 55.
Chief medical officer Tony Holohan says he's still hopeful we won't see a second wave, and the lifting of restrictions will go ahead as planned.
"The measures we have in place now are very substantial measures in terms of their wide economic, social, cultural, educational and so on impact, and we will over the course of the next number of phases seek to ease those.
"We hope we'll be able to get all the way through that without seeing a change in the level of disease which causes us to either have to pause or go back.
"This is still a very transmissible virus - that has not changed."
