The Tánaiste has said a Zero Covid strategy can't be ruled out, even though he thinks it's unworkable.
It comes as Leo Varadkar has told his party the country may move to Level Four restrictions after March 5th.
Opposition parties have been banging the drum calling for a move to a Zero Covid strategy.
Labour leader Alan Kelly doesn't believe that can be fully implemented - but that a version of it is the most effective way forward.
And it seems like the government is slowly moving towards that thinking. In just a week Leo Varadkar has moved from calling Zero Covid unworkable and disproportionate, to saying today that it can't be ruled out as a possible way forward.
Combine that with Taoiseach Micheál Martin saying the system of mandatory quarantine for people from Brazil & South Africa could be extended to other countries under new laws and a direction of travel may be emerging.
But huge questions still loom for the government about what strategy to take in the time after case numbers are suppressed, but before everyone gets the vaccine.
