The winter illness crisis seems to have abated, with doctors saying patient numbers are down.
Further cases of flu were identified by UCD's virus reference laboratory yesterday, but to date staff there have failed to identify any other virus which might have contributed to the upsurge in viral illness across Ireland.
Doctors believe the spate of illness which has put hospital services under extreme pressure this week was caused by a combination of flu and other viruses.
However, doctors reported yesterday that the crisis appeared to have passed and normality was returning to many surgeries.
"The general reports we have received are that the situation has stabilised and it is expected to peter out now," said an Irish Medical Organisation spokesman, Dr Cormac McNamara.
The director of the Irish College of General Practitioners flu clinical trial and surveillance unit, Dr Dermot Nolan, said his members were also confirming that the crisis had passed. But he warned that doctors had to be vigilant in case there was a resurgence of the virus.
The ICGP's members reported the first signs of flu before Christmas. A three- or four-week period of flu was typical each year, he noted.
Meanwhile, the IMO has begun publishing flu information and treatment advice on its website.