COVID live updates: 10 deaths reported between NI and RoI today
The total number of COVID-related deaths reported in Northern Ireland rose to 2,132 and in the Republic of Ireland to 4,820 today, April 15.
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Apr 15, 2021
April 15, 2021: Members of the Irish Defence Forces escort passengers at Dublin Airport to awaiting coaches to be transferred to Hotels for Mandatory quarantine. RollingNews.ie
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February 28
Update 12:55 pm EST: The Department of Health has announced 612 new cases of the coronavirus, taking the total number of infections in Ireland to 219,592.
The Department also announced six further COVID-19-related deaths as Ireland s death toll rose to 4,319.
There are now 554 COVID-19 patients in Irish hospitals with 133 requiring intensive care.
Of the cases announced today, 72% were under the age of 45, while 289 were reported in Dublin.
Elsewhere, 45 cases were reported in Limerick, 34 in Longford, 33 in Galway, 26 in Kildare and the remaining 185 cases were spread across 19 other counties.
DUBLIN Ireland's third lockdown has seen unemployment jump to 25 per cent in January, a 5.6 percentage point increase on December's revised 19.4 per cent. The government's Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on Wednesday that "the Covid-19 crisis has continued to have a significant impact on the labour market in Ireland." A second pandemic-related lockdown ended in early December after six weeks, only for a third national lockdown to be enforced at the end of the month after virus case numbers rose again. Businesses that reopened during the brief inter-lockdown period, such as restaurants, were compelled to close again.
DUBLIN Unemployment in Ireland stayed above 20 per cent in December, official statistics released on Wednesday show, as the country continues to reel from the economic impact of coronavirus-related restrictions. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the December rate, adjusted to include those receiving pandemic-related unemployment payments, was 20.4 per cent, a slight improvement on November's 21 per cent. The CSO's Catalina Gonzalez said "the Covid-19 crisis" is having "a significant impact on the labour market." Around 7 per cent of "all persons" would be classed as jobless if pandemic-related layoffs, some of which could prove temporary, were omitted, according to the CSO. Irish revenue officials said on Wednesday that some of the hundreds of thousands of pandemic-related recipients will face tax bills for the payments, one day after the Department of Finance projected a 19-billion-euros budget deficit for 2020. In April, durin
Huge Covid-related death toll reported in Irish nursing homes – dpa international
DUBLIN Almost half of Ireland’s coronavirus-related fatalities have been in nursing homes, the parliamentary health committee heard on Tuesday.
Health Department official Kathleen MacLellan told members of the Dáil, or parliament, that “1,543 people have lost their lives to Covid-19 in nursing homes, 369 of these in the past month.”
By Tuesday morning Ireland’s Department of Health had reported 3,317 “probable and possible” Covid-related deaths, one-third of which were recorded in January. Covid-19 is the respiratory disease sometimes caused by the novel coronavirus.
Of the almost 200,000 cases of the novel coronavirus reported since the first positive test almost one year ago, more than half were recorded last month, when Ireland was for a time recording the most cases per million of any country in Europe.