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The arrival of South African, Brazilian and Nigerian variants has heaped further pressure on the Government to get the proposed mandatory hotel quarantine regime up and running as quickly as possible. Travel and the absence of mandatory restrictions taught lessons in the pandemic’s first year as the more infectious UK strain made the third wave the most devastating. It will be even more important this year, according to infectious diseases consultant and UCD professor Paddy Mallon, who describes 2021 as “the year of the variant”. Dr Gabriel Scally: “As variants continue...

Covid-19, one year on: The virus was first detected in Ireland on February 29th, 2020

“A lot of that was battlefield decisions. It was a mess back then,” says Tomás Ryan, associate professor at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin. The surge in Covid-19 cases expected in the hospitals in the first wave hit the nursing homes and care facilities instead. They have borne the brunt of the fatalities during the pandemic. Public health expert Dr Gabriel Scally recalls a conversation with a contact tracer calling a Covid-positive foreign healthcare worker. The individual lived with eight others, all of whom worked in the care sector, in fiv...

Opposition Leaders call for Zero Covid Strategy By Alison O'Reilly The living with Covid strategy has failed. That's the message from opposition parties today. Concerns are being raised about rolling lockdowns with no proper structure in place for tackling the virus. We are now in our third lockdown and there is still no data sharing on an all-island approach, while the track and trace system is not up to speed. Labour Leader Alan Kelly said the Taoiseach can't stand over a "Living With Covid" strategy anymore.   Economic supports like the EWSS should be...

Pressure mounted on the Government last night to introduce widescale quarantine travel restrictions, with scientists and politicians...