Health officials are set to meet on Friday to decide whether Ireland's coronavirus lockdown will be extended.
The National Public Health Emergency Team will review models and projections to assess how effective the current strict measures have been.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar first announced the current lockdown on March 27.
He confirmed at the time that the quarantine would stay in place until Easter Sunday, April 12.
And now experts are set to meet to review these measures, decide whether they will continue, and if so, for how long.
Will lockdown restrictions be extended?
It is highly likely that the current lockdown restrictions are going to continue for the foreseeable future.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said last night that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control had warned it was too early for countries to ease controls while the Covid-19 risk remains high.
Dr Holohan added that even when restrictions on movement are lifted they may need to be re-introduced quickly if the disease surges again.
He said: “I think we will be living with this virus for some time. We have flattened the wave
significantly.
“It was at 33% at the very start, it has dropped in terms of its growth rate to single figures.
“We need to get growth down as close to zero as we possibly can.”
“A not unlikely scenario is where we have measures in place until the disease gets below a certain threshold and relaxation happens and if there is an increase restrictions might have to be tightened again, and that’s a scenario that could go on for a period of time.
"We are not close to having a vaccine at this point in time and maybe measures like that will have to exist until we get to that point.”
Similarly, in the UK experts are expected to review their current lockdown measures on Easter Monday.
The health minister of Wales said there was "zero prospect" of current restrictions being eased across the Irish Sea.
But speaking ahead of the Cobra meeting with Dominic Raab and leaders of Scotland and Northern Ireland, Vaughan Gething said the lockdown measures will continue for "a number of weeks".
Mr Gething told BBC Breakfast: "There is zero prospect for the four governments to remove lockdown measures now."
Restrictions on movement in Northern Ireland will also remain in place for the foreseeable future, a Stormont minister said on Wednesday.
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey indicated there would be no relaxation of the coronavirus lockdown measures next week when a review is due.
