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Share this article A senior member of NPHET says Covid-19 variants with no link to international travel have been detected in the State. It comes as the UK variant of the virus is being blamed for the number of cases plateauing here. 591 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed last night, along with 8 further deaths. The 14-day incidence rate now stands at 166 cases per 100-thousand people. Dr Mary Favier says variants with no link to travel have been discovered in "very small numbers" but it's concerning. "The Virus Reference Laboratory are doing a very good job." "They're checking for variants...

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...

Hope has risen for the return of nursing home visits within weeks after “robust” evidence emerged that vaccines are leading to a significant drop in infections and deaths among residents.

Dr Mike Ryan of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Ireland could be in ‘serious trouble’ if the new COVID-19 strains ‘change the rules’ in terms of transmission. So far, three different variants of the COVID-19 virus have been recorded, stemming from the UK, South Africa, and Brazil. Although health officials have reported that there is no evidence that these strains are any more dangerous than the original virus, it is unclear whether it can be prevented by the same vaccines that have been developed and approved to fight off COVID-19. Dr Mike Ryan of the World Health...