The National Public Health Emergency Team is meeting around now (10am) to discuss extending the movement restrictions, which are in place until Easter Sunday.
The death toll from the virus in the Republic now stands at 98, while the total number of confirmed cases is 3,849.
148 people had been admitted to Intensive Care Units after testing positive, as of Tuesday night.
Chief medical officer Tony Holohan says certain steps need to be taken before any measures are lifted.
"Until we have strong public health response consisting of case detection, contact tracing, testing and isolation and quarantine verifiably in place we won't be able to lift theses measures.
"We're working hard to makes sure that we have that."
