The management of Covid-19 is at a particularly precarious stage.
That's the warning from emergency medicine consultant at the Mercy University Hospital Dr Chris Luke who is urging people to continue to observe social distancing and movement rules.
The restrictions are due to be lifted on May 5th, however there have been reports of an increase in the number of people breaking the rules recently, prompting the Health Minister Simon Harris to say he was afraid that people are becoming complacent.
77 additional Covid deaths were announced yesterday bringing the death toll to 687.
Speaking to RedFM News, Dr Chris Luke says the figures are a stark warning.
"We're hearing of people coming out in droves, and going back on the roads in droves, which would suggest there's a touch of fatigue.
"Now is not the time to relax our guard, because there's going to be a second wave, there's going to be a third wave, the virus hasn't gone away.
"The only way it'll go away is if we stop it spreading between human beings and we allow it literally to die off.
"But it's not dying off at the moment, people are dying off - because we're still spreading it."
