A total of 21,384 new Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Ireland.
While there are 984 people in hospital, with 83 patients being treated in ICUs across the country.
The latest figures were released by the Department of Health on Sunday afternoon.
It comes after NPHET's Dr Mary Favrier said that we could be coming through the worst of the Omicron surge.
Dr Favrier told Newstalk: "So in terms of numbers of the peak we might not have seen it yet, but there is a feel that we may be just coming through this sort of short, sharp steep rise and coming through the other side of it.
"So restrictions all across healthcare and across society would be lifted reasonably quickly - not completely - but all with a view to getting healthcare workers back to work and getting society functioning when we have a better sense of what those figures mean.
"As people will know, the last thing anybody wants to do is go backwards, as we've said before, but hopefully we're starting to see some glimmer of light."
At the moment it is unclear when exactly the current measures would ease, but there is hope that by March we could be back to normal - if you ask Luke O'Neill at least.
Prof O’Neill told this paper: “By the time we get to March and April, it will be a different story entirely – watch.”
He said: “Because this is a seasonal virus, once we come into the spring, the counts will start to fall and the boosters will have worked, for definite.
“New anti-viral treatments will be approved in February and that will be a huge weapon.
“We know a lot about this virus now – for heaven’s sake, it’s been almost two years. We have a heavily vaccinated population, which is brilliant, with a strong booster to sustain protection.
“When you put it all together, by the time we get to St Patrick’s Day, the virus will have gone away almost from Ireland, it will seem to be in the background.”
