The leaders of the three coalition parties will meet later today to discuss placing the country back into a six week lockdown.
NPHET has recommended Level 5 restrictions for the entire country.
1,000 new cases of Covid-19 and three more deaths were confirmed yesterday.
75 of the cases were in Galway, 34 in Sligo, 26 in Mayo, 18 in Leitrim and seven in Roscommon.