An expert is warning that repeatedly imposing, lifting and bringing Covid restrictions back in could be a dangerous gamble.
UCC Professor Gerry Kileen says a fading epidemic can be just as dangerous as the onset.
It comes as no new people with Covid 19 have died in the Republic, while there are 18 new confirmed cases.
Professor Kileen is calling for better measures in Ireland to completely stamp out the virus.
"We would certainly not be opening pubs, we would not be opening playgrounds and things like that, we would go back a couple of phases.
"We would especially need to stick at that because we know it works, we know it shrinks the epidemic and would eventually take it to zero, and then the only thing you really have to worry about is international travel."
