Saturday 28 May, 2022
BA.4 and BA.5 were identified by the ECDC as variants of concern earlier this month.
A new billionaire was created every 30 hours during the pandemic, according to Oxfam.
Earlier this month, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control classified two sub-lineages of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 as variants of concern.
The draft bill has gone down like a “lead balloon” with workers, said Sinn Féin’s Louise O’Reilly.
The country reported 232,880 new cases of “fever” as of Tuesday evening, bringing the total number to 1.72 million with 62 deaths.
The city of 25 million has been under heavy restrictions since early April.
One in every five deaths around the world in children under age 5 is caused by severe acute malnutrition, according to a new report.
With Ireland now in a different phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, will lessons be learned from the crisis gone by?
Failing to slow the virus could have dire consequences for North Korea.
North Korea has no Covid vaccines, antiviral treatment drugs or mass-testing capacity.
The country had previously held for more than two years to the widely doubted claim that it had kept the virus out.
The HSE’s Damien McCallion gave The Journal’s Coronavirus Newsletter an insight into the next stages of the vaccine rollout.
The World Health Organisation has said the mounting economic toll of severe restrictions could be unsustainable.
Experts have warned the virus could be devastating in a country with a broken health care system.
Vaccination was a major factor determining outbreaks, as well as whether a home had suffered an outbreak in the past.
The country had never admitted to a case of the virus and had imposed a rigid coronavirus blockade of its borders since 2020.
The new recommendations are set to come into effect from 16 May.
The Covid-19 emergency roster has been extended amid an industrial relations dispute.
China’s capital is trying to fend off a Covid-19 outbreak with restrictions on movement.
The figure includes deaths directly associated with Covid as well as those due to the pandemic’s impact on the health system and society.
Deaths from Covid-19 in Hong Kong have fallen from a high of almost 300 per day in March to zero in recent days.
Obesity rates in the region have ballooned by 138% in the past five decades.
Ottawa police promised that protesters would not be allowed to get a foothold for a prolonged occupation.
In the final daily update, health officials reported 980 PCR-confirmed cases and 1,020 positive antigen tests.
The Department of Health confirmed the figures earlier today.
From TheJournal.ie
The Prison Officers’ Association are holding their annual conference in Sligo.
The Department of Health released the figures this afternoon.
The case was brought by two women whose fathers died from Covid-19.
Harris will isolate at her residence but continue to work remotely.
477 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, the first time the figure dropped below 500 since December.
The world number one has only competed at three tournaments in 2022 because of entry restrictions imposed by various countries.
535 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, including 43 in ICU.
Researchers from NUI Galway are studying employees’ experiences of remote working since the removal of public health restrictions.
Nolan said that as health experts, ‘we need to be better at communicating the range of possibilities and uncertainties’.
Prof Aisling McMahon and Dr Edana Richardson argue that shareholders in pharma have the power to demand better from companies.
The Department of Health announced the figures in a statement this afternoon.
The person first tested positive in early 2020 and continued to test positive until their death in 2021.
It follows guidance from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC).
The Department of Health announced the figures in a statement this afternoon.
The Department of Health announced the figures in a statement this afternoon.
