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11/04/2021

How to properly wear a mask? What is the advantage of using two masks?

09/04/2021

The United States and Canada, as well as a number of EU countries including France, Belgium and Italy, are among sixteen countries that have been added to the mandatory hotel quarantine list following a Cabinet meeting.

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25/03/2021

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24/02/2021

Air pollution kills thousands in megacities despite COVID lockdowns

29/01/2021

Lives are being put at risk and the care of patients disrupted by a spate of hospital incursions from Covid-19 deniers whose online activity is channeling hatred against NHS staff, say healthcare and police chiefs.

Healthcare and police chiefs also say online activity is channelling hatred against NHS staff

28/01/2021

Around 120,000 of England’s most vulnerable families are being forced to play “Russian roulette” with Covid because care workers who visit their homes are not being tested, despite a government pledge.
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Vulnerable people ‘playing Russian roulette’ as carers have not had Covid tests

27/01/2021

The World Health Organization has issued fresh clinical advice for treating Covid-19 patients, including those displaying persistent symptoms after recovery, and also advised using low-dose anticoagulants to prevent blood clots.

The World Health Organization has issued fresh clinical advice for treating Covid-19 patients, including those displaying persistent symptoms after recovery, and also advised using low-dose anti-coagulants to prevent blood clots.

26/01/2021

Corkman Tadhg Daly said that there is currently an estimated 1,800 nursing home staff across the country out of work for reasons relating to Covid-19, while acute hospitals across the country are 7,000 staff members short.

Nursing homes issue SOS for staff as Covid outbreaks in Cork facilities cause crisis

25/01/2021

Healthcare assistants are more likely to be at risk of contracting Covid-19 from patients in hospitals than doctors or nurses, a study examining two Irish hospitals has found.https://buff.ly/3aaL1xx

Virus antibodies detected in hospital staff who likely worked while asymptomatic

22/01/2021

Regular aerobic or moderate exercise in weeks and months prior to Covid-19 vaccination can help improve antibody responses post-vaccination in older people, according to researchers at Trinity College Dublin.

Trinity team outlines ways to boost uptake, efficacy of vaccine among vulnerable group

21/01/2021

The COVID-19 pandemic saw a 70% drop in international tourist arrivals from January - August in 2020.

21/01/2021

One-third of residents and one-quarter of staff infected in outbreak at home since Christmas

21/01/2021

While the UK is under lockdown, travel for work and other exemptions is still allowed. We take a look at how to stay safer when cooped up together, whether in a taxi or a private car.

If sharing a car is unavoidable, there are a few ways to reduce the risk of transmission

20/01/2021

The Defence Forces have been deployed to three nursing homes in recent days to ease staffing pressures, following an appeal from the Health Service Executive.

Over 25 soldiers sent to facilities in Ballincollig and Douglas, Co Cork, and Ennis, Co Clare

19/01/2021

The HSE has written to nursing homes highlighting possible risks to frail, elderly people from the vaccine and stating some people may not be suitable vaccine candidates.

The HSE has written to nursing homes reminding them each resident must be assessed before getting the current Covid-19 vaccine