A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, has found “no evidence of asymptomatic transmission” according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. “A mass screening programme of more than 10 million residents of Wuhan, China, performed after SARS-CoV-2 was brought under control, has identified 300 asymptomatic cases of covid-19, none of […]
A Chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for four years because she reported what she saw in the crowded hospitals of Wuhan when the coronavirus first impacted the city. Zhang Zhan, 37, has been found guilty in the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” because she criticised the Chinese’s government’s […]
Mass-goers in Limerick prayed outside a city-centre church this morning after the government-imposed closure of religious services took effect yesterday.
Catholics in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal prayed outside their cathedral after the government-imposed closure of religious services took effect this morning.
Charlie McConalogue tested positive for Covid-19 this morning after a recent trip to Brussels.
The Iraqi parliament has unanimously voted to make Christmas Day an official state holiday.
The Rural Independents Group has said that “the lack of a plan” in regard to Covid-19 “has left Ireland facing the toughest Christmas in living memory”. Speaking this morning, the leader of the Rural Independent Group, Deputy Mattie Mc Grath said: “My colleagues and I in the Rural Independent Group have spent the last nine […]
As pubs, hairdressers, beauty salons and restaurants prepare to close tomorrow afternoon, they are among a range of businesses and organizations that might not be allowed to reopen until March according to Leo Varadkar.
Government sources have confirmed a whole raft of restrictions will be introduced in the coming days.
The Court of Appeal in Britain has ruled that free speech includes the right to offend, finding that “Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having”. The landmark ruling was handed down in the case of a mother, Kate Scottow, who was arrested in front of her children because she described a trans activist who had […]
A mutated strain of Covid-19 currently spreading in the UK was detected in Brazil last April.
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has described the Government’s actions on Covid as a “yo-yo policy” and says that proposals to introduce new Covid Restrictions even before the current restrictions are relaxed has shattered any sense of certainty that many people and businesses needed and thought that they had. “The Táiniste Leo Varadkar stated on […]