The number of people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment was approximately 192,000 this week, a decrease of almost 10,000 on the previous week

Former British PM exploring if pharma firms here could make vaccines for export to Africa and other countries

Johnson’s denial, dithering and anti-science choices have turned once-great Britain into the bad neighbours of Europe

Department of Education procuring 20 to 35 carbon monitors for every school ahead of September return to classes

Ireland’s strategy against the Delta variant is more cautious than Britain’s, but some experts feel the differences are mainly in tone, not content, and that we could be heading for a very bad worst-case scenario

Leading human rights organisations say they have ‘concerns’ over effectiveness of DPC’s interventions on data protection implications of using Covid tracker app to store Digital Covid Certs

Cathal Walsh said the government’s plan to allow indoor dining for unvaccinated children, even with added social distancing, differed ‘substantially’ from public health advice

As someone who has had liver transplants and takes immunosuppressant drugs, DCU’s Professor of Public Health has a very personal stake in how the current stage of the coronavirus crisis is handled by the government

Allowing children dine indoors with their parents is ‘exactly what we don’t want’, says Nphet modeller, while the government remains determined to press ahead with reopening plans despite rising Delta numbers

The new ‘vaccine pass’ system is likely to create numerous problems for publicans but, as they wearily acknowledge, it’s better than being closed up

Opinions differ sharply on whether reopening indoor dining for vaccinated people is a fair idea or a safe one. In reality, it’s an experiment and a compromise

Pfizer will begin clinical trials next month for an altered version of its Covid jab that targets full spike protein of variant

Jim Clarken also criticised comments made by Leo Varadkar in May when the Tánaiste downplayed the ability of certain countries to produce vaccines if patents were waived

Restaurants are pushing to be allowed reopen next week as soon as legislation facilitating indoor dining for vaccinated people is passed

The Tánaiste said the only other options would have been reopening indoor dining without restrictions or else keeping the industry shut until herd immunity was reached

Ossian Smyth told an Oireachtas committee that the government has made contact with the Data Protection Commission in an attempt to make sure the process is fully compliant with GDPR regulations

The government will have to decide where it is going to get the testing capacity from and who is going to pay for it

Scientific evidence now points to ventilation as the key to safe indoor activity, but Irish businesses are still awaiting specific guidelines on best practice

The logical conclusion of Boris Johnson’s wish to 'trust people to be responsible and to do the right thing’ is that if you get Covid-19, it’s your own fault

Experts differ on whether herd immunity can actually be reached, or whether we must reconcile ourselves to living with Covid-19 for the foreseeable future