The Government will discuss the possibility of introducing tighter restrictions for Dublin on Tuesday.
The National Public Health Emergency Team met on Thursday and has issued guidance to the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly, which will now be brought to Cabinet.
It is understood that the advice includes reducing the number of people allowed to visit a home to six from two other households, as opposed to six from three.
Meanwhile, Taoiseach Micheal Martin said the Government will officially decide on the date to reopen wet pubs during the same meeting on Tuesday.
The provisional date is currently September 21.
The Cabinet will also rubber stamp the final details of its Covid-19 medium-term plan, which is to be published next week.
And Mr Martin said they will consider advice from the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) in relation to the growing number of cases in the capital.
He told reporters: "We are developing a new framework and a new plan in terms of dealing with Covid for the next six months.
"We have worked with the chief medical officer (Dr Ronan Glynn) in this regard and NPHET, that is work still in progress.
"One of the key aspects of that will be a modification of the structure by which advice is filtered to government and making sure we can implement whatever is advised.
"We will consider NPHET's advice on Tuesday in relation to Dublin but we will be publishing a national plan in relation to dealing with Covid in all its aspects.
"In that framework, consideration has to be given to the economic situation, to protecting jobs, making sure citizens have a quality of life.
"Fundamentally what will drive the plan is personal behaviour and all of us have to focus on personal behaviour.
"People are fatigued, I understand that, people are fed up of restrictions and they would love to go back to the normality we once experienced but the virus will be around for a while.
"We have got to be smart and resilient in how we deal with it."
Mr Martin made the comments while visiting Global Shares in Clonakilty in West Cork.
The financial technology company is creating 150 jobs.
