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

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

Waiving IP rights may threaten the patent system which has underpinned the extraordinary advances in science that delivered vaccines within a year of the pandemic beginning

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

If workers end up in the future doing from home the jobs they did in offices up to last year, it opens up a fundamental debate on what exactly such a place is

Every country must have access to Covid-19 vaccines, but the problem of distribution may rest more in the ability to produce drugs fast enough, rather than patenting

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

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?

The protests by former Debenhams workers have seen the stakes rise due to Garda intervention, while a liquidation of the British chain’s Irish operation has gathered pace. Kieran Wallace and Andrew O’Leary of KPMG say if a deal that worked for everybody could have been done, they would have made it 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

As director of the Irish diagnostics arm of Swiss pharma giant Roche, Finbarr Kenny has navigated a whirlwind year for the firm, in which he oversaw the delivery of more than 1.5 million Covid-19 tests into the country