This morning, the Taoiseach and his Government announced a national shutdown of Schools and other public places for an initial period of two weeks, along with a nationwide programme of social distancing. It was the right call. But it’s worth asking: How long could this shutdown actually last? Does the Government have some benchmarks for […]
An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that all schools, colleges and childcare facilities are to close from 6pm today until 29th March.
Several GPs have criticised Health Minister Simon Harris following what they call “misleading” comments he made on RTÉ’s Prime Time regarding the covid-19 virus. Referring to the virus, which has infected at least 61 people on the island of Ireland and claimed its first death on Irish soil last night, the Fine Gael health minister […]
When it became clear that the novel coronavirus coming out of China was destined to be a pandemic, international concern quickly zeroed in on how countries with weak health systems, most of which are in Africa, would be affected. It was feared that they would be quickly overwhelmed by the virus and left reeling. The […]
The lady is thought to have been an older person and was being treated in hospital.
“The cases of Coronavirus are rising fast – but is government inaction making things worse?” asks Ben Scallan. #gript #coronavirus
One of the country’s leading medical experts has said that Ireland needs to “adopt the extreme measures now” or risk facing the “horrific” situation the Coronavirus has created in Italy. On the Virgin Media Tonight Show last night Professor John Crown, a well-known cancer specialist, answered “Yes” when asked if the country needed to “Close everything” and “Stop travel”. […]
There are days, watching the Irish Government’s response to Coronavirus, where you start to feel relatively confident in it for a while. Then something like this happens: Department of Health has said that general visiting restrictions that some hospitals & nursing homes have introduced, should be lifted. The National Public Health Emergency Team has not […]
It’s important to start this piece with the official advice: Buying overpriced facemasks probably isn’t going to save you from the Coronavirus, according to the experts: “It seems kind of intuitively obvious that if you put something—whether it’s a scarf or a mask—in front of your nose and mouth, that will filter out some of […]
A top medical expert has said that the COVID-19 pandemic is “the biggest global healthcare crisis that we will encounter in our lifetime” and strongly urged the government to do more to address the crisis. Dr Carmen Regan, a maternal medicine Specialist, told Claire Byrne Live on RTE that Ireland “will be Italy if we do what […]
Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín, had said the escalating COVID-19 crisis is a “national emergency” and called on the Dáil to reconvene to ensure measures are taking to deal with the fallout. “In my view we need to be 100% honest with people. We have a history of withholding information from people. Adults are entitled to […]
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