The collapse of talks aimed at getting Leaving Certificate students back behind their desks hasn t exactly calmed the choppy waters of parental discontent about ongoing school closures.
Healthcare workers won't attempt CPR on patients with "do not resuscitate" orders. Some people with learning disabilities say they didn't consent to that.
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A question on gender identity won t be in Census 2022 - but may be in future ones
British citizens will be asked about their gender identity for the first time, the country’s national statistician said on Friday. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Wednesday 10 Feb 2021, 6:00 AM Feb 10th 2021, 6:00 AM 11,224 Views 21 Comments
THE CENTRAL STATISTICS Office has confirmed that Census 2022 won’t include a question about citizens’ gender identity, but research is being carried out into including the question in subsequent ones.
Ireland’s census form has included a question on the form that asks about people’s sex. The options are ‘male’ or ‘female’.
New data suggest Russia’s Covid-19 death toll in 2020 among highest in the world
From CNN’s Mary Ilyushina in Moscow
Cemetery workers disinfect a grave as they bury a COVID-19 victim in the Butovskoye cemetery outside Moscow, Russia on May 15, 2020. Kirill Zykov/Moscow News Agency/AP
New figures released by Russia’s federal statistics agency Monday indicate as many as 162,429 deaths in Russia were related to Covid-19 in 2020, a figure much higher than previously reported.
Russia officially reported 57,555 deaths from Covid-19 in 2020, according to data from the country’s coronavirus task force that is published on an easily accessed web page. But figures released by the agency, Rosstat, are less readily accessible: They are available online but buried in monthly spreadsheets.
US considers mobile vaccination centers to tackle undersupply of shots, White House adviser says
From CNN Health s Jacqueline Howard
Getting Covid-19 vaccination appointments has been a challenge for many Americans because we re in a situation of undersupply of vaccine, according to Andy Slavitt, the senior Biden White House adviser for Covid Response. We re in a situation, and we will be for a little while, of undersupply, Slavitt told NPR s Mary Louise Kelly on
All Things Considered on Monday. At one point we thought that there was a lot of manufacturing that had gone on over the last year and that would be the case. It wasn t and I think our job is to level with folks, he said.