The crisis pregnancy support organisation, Gianna Care, has opened a new location for its services in Kerry in response to increased demand. The new location will boost already existing services provided from centres in Dublin and Galway, which reach out across the country. Gianna Care says its new centre in Kerry will most of the services […]
A leading medical expert has said he would take minutes at the next meeting of the National Public Health Emergency Team to help with transparency, after the Chief Medical Officer said the delay in publishing minutes was “just a work-load issue”. Dr John Crown’s tongue-in-cheek tweet was in response to a statement by Dr Tony […]
China’s ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, has said that the Chinese Communist Party may encourage boycotts of imported Australian goods if Australia continue to call for an independent investigation into the origin and spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. In an interview with the Australian Financial Review Ambassador Cheng also said that an investigation would “disrupt […]
A fascinating piece in Newsweek, yesterday, speculated that Coronavirus is, in fact, man-made, and that it may well have come directly from Chinese efforts to engineer a deadly virus. Speculated is a key word here, because speculation is exactly what it is. There’s no hard evidence. But there’s speculation, and then there’s informed speculation: “What’s […]
Cards on the table: I think criticising him for this is nuts: On the front line – Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar at Morgans Place site in Blachardstown where he he help with #Covid19 testing of residents. This sends out a really positive message 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/neqoZ817dZ — Mayor of Galway – Cllr. Eddie Hoare (@EddieHoareFG) April 27, 2020 […]
Whilst the state average of those who had already been infected and developed antibodies was found to be 13.9%, the rate among residents of New York City was 21.2%.
A Japanese island which lifted the state of emergency imposed because of the coronavirus has now been struck by a second wave of Covid-19. The island of Hokkaido in northern Japan became the first region in the country to declare a state of emergency due to Covid-19 in late February. A tourist hotspot, Hokkaido would have welcomed […]
It is believed that Kim, who has not been seen in public for over two weeks, became severely ill because of delayed surgery, prompting China to send a team of medical experts to offer their help.
Dr Chen Shih-Chung writes on the needs for international health organisations to recognize Taiwan in order to protect global health security.
Dyson however have decided to continue trialing their newly designed ventilator, in the hopes that they might be of benefit to another country.
Approximately 4% of American children were already being home-schooled before the coronavirus outbreak, with an estimated 90% coming from Christian homes.
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the Taoiseach to commit to an Investigation into the crisis in the Nursing Home sector. He says he seeks to ensure “for Public Health reasons, that we do not repeat these mistakes again”. Deputy Tóibín said the investigation “should happen after the Coronavirus crisis subsides”. Speaking in […]