A quarter of a million doses are expected to be administered this week, increasing to between 260,000 and 280,000 next week

Supervalu and Aldi say they have no plans to sell the rapid testing kits after public health officials rebuke Lidl

Cathal Walsh says public health team must offer people advice on how antigen tests should or should not be used

Fall in detections of 'variants of concern' has taken place since late March, when mandatory hotel quarantine was introduced

The Irish Epidemiological Advisory Group has projected a number of models of the progress of Covid-19 in Ireland, the most likely being a six-month period during which cases peak in summer and reduce back by the end of 2021

Plans are afoot for the introduction of Ireland’s digital vaccine passport, which will allow people to travel around Europe later this summer

Concerns that people will be falsely reassured by Covid-19 tests with a 50 per cent failure rate fails to deter supermarket chain

Despite pressure from lobby groups to relax the mandatory hotel quarantine requirements, public health figures are happy that the measures to reduce Covid infections are working well

The Minister for Culture has held talks with concert promoter Denis Desmond over plans to introduce a pilot scheme for live concerts, possibly by July

Amnesty writes to Stephen Donnelly urging him to use Ireland’s EU status to force an intellectual property rights waiver onto G20 agenda

Professor Kingston Mills has warned that the new rules mean higher risk groups are getting less effective vaccines

Society is no longer in suspended animation. But joy at a staged return to normal life is tempered by apprehension on the part of many

A year into this crisis, Covid-19 still has the ability to inflict considerable suffering of the kind being witnessed in India. How did we let this happen?

HSE scrambles to reorganise ongoing rollout amid disruption to over-50s plan while IBM and Salesforce are hired to develop vaccine passport app to restart travel sector

The government’s reopening plan comes with the knowledge that the vaccine programme here needs to be substantially completed if its gains are to mean anything

Delivery schedules and vaccine restrictions make it highly likely HSE will have to administer over 400,000 vaccines a week by June

The next two months will be a defining period for the government. If the reopening plan works, it will give the coalition the chance to focus on fixing the economy and reforming the health service

With first doses for the over-65s and at-risk groups almost completed, new guidelines on vaccines should not greatly disrupt the programme

Company has introduced PCR testing for staff after an outbreak of 85 cases at its construction site last week

All the signs are of a general easing of cases nationwide, but getting the go-ahead on the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines could finally bring about the reopening we’ve all been longing for