The National Public Health Emergency Team is meeting today where it will discuss a childcare scheme for healthcare staff during the coronavirus emergency.
174 people are now confirmed to have died from the virus, while there are over 5,300 confirmed cases.
175 people have been admitted to the ICU.
Chief medical officer Tony Holohan says restrictions on travel and work will only be lifted when the country has a grip on the outbreak.
"It will be because we have seen the disease start to, if I may say, behave itself in the way we would like first of all - the number of deaths, the number of cases overall.
"In the event that we were to relax some of those measures that we know we have the capacity in our testing, that we know we have the capacity in terms of kit we that has to be available, to really be strong and focussed on finding cases, and our work over the next one to two weeks will be to get us into that position."
