Coalition party leaders will meet today for talks on plans for what restrictions will be in place over Christmas.
Yesterday officials confirmed a further 318 cases of Covid-19, and said another patient with the virus had died.
Dublin, Cork and Limerick saw the highest numbers of new cases, though the national infection rate has continued to fall.
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There were 5,193 new infections in the last fortnight, or 109 per hundred thousand people.
Professor Gerry Killeen, a virus expert in UCC, says the downward trend is welcome -- but the danger has not left us:
