The country's top health officials are meeting around now to consider childcare help for frontline staff working during the Covid-19 pandemic.
They'll also discuss how any relaxing of the current restrictions would work, IF they were to be eased from next month.
There are now 15,652 confirmed cases here and 687 people have lost their lives.
Infectious diseases consultant Eoghan De Barra says the figures, though upsetting, are improving.
"The difficult bit is when things start to look better in the figures, the rush or anxiety to lift this measures and try and get back to normal.
"I think we can start to see some light at the end of the tunnel, but we really need to stick with it now, because this is the crucial time to actually make sure we continue to push the virus back into its hiding places, and find it in those hiding places."
