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'Living with Covid is not viable': UCC professor calls for zero Covid approach According to Professor Ivan Perry, the campaign, ‘We Can Be Zero’ aims to showcase increasing public support for the strategy and to highlight the case for Zero Covid while also encouraging members of the public to campaign for it. Maeve Lee The Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG) has launched a public campaign urging the Government to introduce a Zero Covid strategy. The group, which is made up of scientists, academics and researchers, has come together to advocate the strategy of eliminating the Covi...

European approach to Covid-19 'uncoordinated and unclear', says UCC professor The experts say that vaccines won’t help control the virus until late 2021 A file picture of a Covid test. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan Sat, 19 Dec, 2020 - 13:21 Steve Neville Five academics from University College Cork are among the experts to sign a letter calling for a stronger European response to the Covid-19 pandemic. One professor claimed that so far the European approach to the pandemic is "uncoordinated and unclear". The letter, published in The Lancet and signed by more than 300 scientists from around the...

Share this article Large, centralised vaccination centres are being planned to roll-out the COVID-19 vaccines to everyone next year. Cabinet ministers will consider a report on Tuesday morning that will set out how they should be distributed. A high-level COVID-19 taskforce reported to Government last Friday and that will be published following today's Cabinet meeting. It will set out how vaccines will be secured, transported, stored and ultimately delivered. The report says there will be five places it will be possible to get a vaccine. Firstly in long-term residential care homes and healthc...