A health expert has appealed to people to wear their masks indoors again.
It comes as the Chief Medical Officer considers reducing the 7 day isolation period for those with Covid.
Professor of Immunovirology at UCC Liam Fanning expects cases to naturally go down as the weather improves:
"Wearing masks in crowded spaces, for a short period of the next few weeks, or one month or two, I'd say is what will give us a much much freer summer. We will probably still have a rumbling of low hundreds of numbers at any point."