Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the government will introduce a series of new restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19, as she warned the global financial hub was on the edge of another outbreak. The new rules include a ban on flights from eight countries for two weeks from 8 January – the UK, … Read more
17,071 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Ireland today. As of 8 a.m. today, there were 717 Covid patients being treated at hospitals and 87 of them are in ICUs. Meanwhile Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has shown hope in low number of hospital admissions due to Covid even when the case numbers surged … Read more
Further 4,642 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Ireland today. As of 8 AM today, there are 556 Covid patients being treated in hospitals. 107 among them are in ICU. The total number of Covid deaths in the country has risen to 5,566 after The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) confirmed 74 deaths … Read more
Vaccines do not stop virus spread in the society as we expected before, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Holohan revealed. The Covid vaccines helped to reduce hospital admissions and deaths, but they are not enough to stop virus spread among people, Dr. Holohan said at the briefing of National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) on … Read more