[ad_1] EMPLOYEES WILL HAVE the legal right to request remote work under the new legislation the government plans to introduce this year. Tánaiste and the Minister for Business, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar, will today publish Ireland’s first national telecommuting strategy to make telecommuting a permanent option for life after the pandemic. Under the new … Read more
[ad_1] Ireland has been placed as the second highest in the EU for the number of people vaccinated against Covid-19. his was calculated per 100,000 people, with Denmark in first place. The Our World Data report estimated that 1.57% of Ireland’s population has been vaccinated, while 2.23% of Denmark’s population has been vaccinated. After Ireland … Read more
[ad_1] Belmullet, Co Mayo continues to have the highest rate of Covid-19 in the state, more than three times the national average, new figures show. About one in 17 people on the remote peninsula have tested positive for the virus in the past two weeks. The area has an incidence of 6,031 per 100,000, with … Read more
[ad_1] Nearly half of all Covid-19 cases reported by the Health Department have been reported in the past two weeks, as heard in a report tonight. Professor Philip Nolan, Chairman of the Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group of Ireland, said that 44% of all cases were reported in the last fortnight, and that one in 67 … Read more
[ad_1] The latest update on the COVID-19 situation in Ireland will take place at the Department of Health tonight. NPHET will report to the media tonight as they announced more deaths and the latest cases in Ireland. Attendees will be Dr. Tony Holohan, Health Department Medical Director, Dr. Ronan Glynn, Health Department Deputy Medical Director, … Read more
[ad_1] Ireland is poised for another dramatic day of developments as we fight to suppress a third wave of coronavirus. Health officials are set to announce the latest number of cases tonight, as the country faces a further surge in Covid-19 infections. It comes after Ireland recorded another 3,569 Covid-19 cases last night as infection … Read more
[ad_1] The redeployment of non-critical care nurses into overwhelming critical care roles is putting pressure on intensive care units as hospitals run out of options amid rising Covid-19 admissions. It occurs when hospitals across the country reach their responsiveness by converting operating rooms and resuscitation areas into intensive care areas to accommodate patients in critical … Read more
[ad_1] The newer and more infectious strain of Covid-19 in the UK is better at finding victims, generating much of the disease and misery that has gripped the country. Although the blockade has closed so many avenues for people to come together and transmit it to each other, the new form of virus has created … Read more
[ad_1] Hospitals across the state have been ordered to treat the current rise in Covid-19 as an “emergency situation” by suspending all non-urgent work and increasing patient discharge “with immediate effect.” As ICU capacity is expected to be exhausted by the weekend, the HSE has told hospitals to minimize the length of stay for patients … Read more
[ad_1] TEACHING Unions have come under fire at a private Fianna Fáil meeting amid the debacle over the abandoned plan to reopen schools for Leaving Cert students and children with special needs this week. The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting also heard calls for predictive grades to be an option for this year’s Leaving Cert … Read more