The National Public Health Emergency Team meets this morning to consider how any Covid-19 restrictions might be eased from next month.
401 new cases have been diagnosed, meaning there have been 15,652 confirmed coronavirus cases since it began spreading here.
A further 77 people have lost their lives after being infected with the virus, bringing the death toll to 687.
But Infectious Diseases consultant Eoghan De Barra says the figure, while upsetting, isn’t as high as it seems.
'These 77 deaths were reported yesterday but they actually occurred over the prior ten days or so and actually by day of death, the date rate has continued to fall'.
