The National Public Health Emergency Team meets this morning, with senior health officials very concerned about some trends emerging in the spread of Covid 19 here.
They're worried about day-on-day increases in ICU admissions, clusters of nursing home cases, the rise in community transmission, and the spread of the virus among health workers.
The number of Covid-19 related deaths here has more than doubled in 24 hours, with 10 more people dying, bringing the death toll to 19.
There have also been a further 255 confirmed cases, with 1,819 cases now recorded.
Chief medical officer Tony Holohan says they may decide to bring in more measures to stop the spread after today's meeting:
"We're seeing a continuous increase day on day in terms of intensive care.
"We're seeing clusters in a number of situations where we would not like to see infection, like nursing homes and other long stay residential facilities.
"I've said from the beginning, before we ever had a case, if we needed to make a recommendation to either the public or to the government in terms of actions that need to be taken, we would do that without hesitation."
