Cars line up at the RocDoc rapid Covid test centre based at Dublin Airport on Friday. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times Covid-19: Warning over Brazil variant as 50 more deaths recorded
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Health workers treat new Covid-19 patients within the Intensive Care Unit of the Alberto Sabogal Hospital, in Callao, Peru on January 15th. Photograph: Luis Angel Gonzalez/EPA Coronavirus: Global death toll passes 2 million
A pharmacist looks at a screen indicating a temperature of -70 degrees on a supercooling freezer containing the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital in Le Mans, France this week. Photograph: Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images) Pfizer to reduce vaccine deliveries to Europe
Nisra’s figures go deeper in that they relate to death certificates in the wider community where Covid-19 was recorded as a factor in the death. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire Covid-19 related deaths in North passes 2,000, says statistics agency
On Thursday, new restrictions were introduced on travellers arriving into the UK from South America and Portugal in connection with a Covid-19 variant linked to Brazil. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA UK to close access for overseas travellers without negative Covid-19 test
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No, you can’t use the bathroom, Jared and Ivanka tell their Secret Service agents According to the Washington Post Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have banned their security detail from using the toilets in their sprawling Washington DC mansion. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Kushner and Trump’s security detail forced to use rented basement for $3,000 a month

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Trump prepares to leave for Florida before Biden inauguration US president Donald Trump will leave Washington on Wednesday morning, hours before the inauguration of his Democratic successor Joe Biden. File photo. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty
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Heavy security in Washington as preparations continue for next week’s swearing in

Public mood will turn ugly if people feel vaccine rollout is being botched ‘The future of the Coalition hinges on how well it handles the rollout of the Covid vaccine in the coming months.’ File photograph: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg

Stephen Collins: Coalition needs to prove it has a plan for final phase of Covid-19 battle

‘I’m thinking of leaving him, as soon as I can get beyond the 5km limit’ ‘There’ll be so many women like me out there with their lives in a suitcase, I’ll never meet anyone else’. Photograph: iStock

Hilary Fannin: My generally optimistic friend has begun to fade over the past few months

Pfizer to reduce vaccine deliveries to Europe A pharmacist looks at a screen indicating a temperature of -70 degrees on a supercooling freezer containing the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital in Le Mans, France this week. Photograph: Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images)

Ireland may receive just half of expected 40,000 doses next week

Special school pupils to return on alternate days from Thursday Thousands of children with additional needs are due to return to special schools on alternate days from next Thursday under detailed plans agreed with unions. Photograph: iStock

INTO says reopening will depend on ‘improvement in public health landscape’

Ireland should be wary as tech giants cancel Trump Twitter account of US President Donald Trump is displayed on a mobile phone. Photograph: Olivier Douliery / AFP Getty Images

Activist US corporations have become too big for Ireland to handle

Rathcoole Co Dublin is within city reach but has all the calm of the country There is plenty to keep you occupied in this southside village ad if you want, town is just a hop and a skip away. Illustration: Aoife Dooley
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Employees to have legal right to request home working, says Varadkar Leo Varadkar: Covid pandemic has changed mindsets about his nature of remote work. Stock image: PA

Tánaiste says Covid-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated change in mindsets

Plans progress for €25m white water rafting facility in Dublin The proposed white water rafting facility would be located between the IFSC and the CHQ building in Dublin. Image: Smart Docklands/ YouTube

Local authority seeks expressions of interest from contractors as project cost rises again

Facebook unable to find allegedly defamatory post about TD It appeared the February 2020 post was permanently deleted from the Facebook platform and it is not possible to retrieve a record of it, counsel said. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

Internal investigation tried to locate post, person responsible for it, High Court hears

Partygoer (20) fined for breaching Covid-19 lockdown regulations Brooklyn Gill was fined €250 for breaching coronavirus regulations by attending a house party during lockdown. Photograph: Paul Scott

Gardaí received report at 3am of large house party in full swing in Galway city suburb

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