[ad_1] JOHNSON & JOHNSON HAS announced that global trials found their single dose vaccine to be 66% effective in preventing Covid-19. The results were obtained in a large trial with 44,000 volunteers that was carried out on three continents and against multiple variants of the virus. The US company said the jab was 85% effective … Read more
[ad_1] The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will decide on Friday whether to approve AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine amid a fierce dispute over a drastic cut in expected deliveries by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company. The measure has spurred the EU to take measures to control exports of vaccines from the bloc. German health authorities recommended on Thursday … Read more
[ad_1] Public health officials have dismissed as impractical and risky the “zero Covid” strategy increasingly advocated by opposition politicians. In an unusually frank criticism, senior members of the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) accused proponents of the strategy of making “false promises” that an end to the lockdown can be achieved soon by eliminating … Read more
[ad_1] NPHET has told the Government that it will be increasingly difficult to maintain the level of Covid-19 suppression that has been achieved since the New Year. Dr. Tony Holohan informed the Minister of Health that NPHET expects a large number of additional deaths from the virus in the coming weeks. In its letter to … Read more
[ad_1] HEALTH MINISTER STEPHEN Donnelly told Dáil today that 3% of the Irish population has been vaccinated as of Sunday: 66,000 in long-term residences and 77,000 health workers. Second doses are being given and will be intensified this week, he told Dáil. Four of the 589 nursing homes were not included in the vaccination program … Read more
[ad_1] Take a pill to protect yourself from Covid? The Irish firm is in ‘advanced’ stages of creating a tablet that stops the spread of the coronavirus, reveals Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar MSD Pharmaceutical is in ‘advanced stages’ of producing Covid-19 tablets Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told his party about the development on … Read more
[ad_1] The medical director has said that the current 14-day incidence of Covid-19 is still more than double the rate experienced at the peak of previous Level 5 restrictions in October. Dr. Tony Holohan said that the risk of transmission of the virus in the community remains very high and urged people not to let … Read more
[ad_1] A TD from Fianna Fáil apologized for saying that Ireland should buy the Ku Klux Klan’s Covid vaccine if necessary. Arc MacSharry made a reference at the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting tonight to obtaining vaccinations if necessary from the Ku Klux Klan, but quickly withdrew it, saying it was an extreme analogy. When … Read more
[ad_1] Carriers warn of significant new disruptions at Irish Sea and English Channel ports likely to lead to further delays to and from Ireland of food and parcels after the French government imposed mandatory Covid-19 tests for truckers Irish traveling to the country for the first time. Aidan Flynn, general manager of the Freight Transport … Read more
[ad_1] The Tánaiste has said that the country will not go from Level 5 to Level 3 in March and that the easing of restrictions will resemble the reopening after the first wave of the virus last year. Leo Varadkar also said that the number of daily cases should fall “to a minimum of 100”, … Read more