Health Protection Surveillance Centre

The Co Mayo town of Belmullet continues to have the highest rate of Covid-19 infection in the State, followed by Enniscorthy in Co Wexford and Dundalk(...)

Belmullet, Co Mayo continues to have the highest rate of Covid-19 in the State, more than three times the national average, new figures show. About o(...)

Carol singing will not be permitted and churches should consider holding additional services, with pre-booked spots over the Christmas period, under n(...)

Restrictions on nursing homes are expected to be eased to allow residents have one scheduled visit a week in the run-up to Christmas, under new guidel(...)

The Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien received Cabinet approval on Wednesday to publish a Bill to ban evictions for the period of the Level 5 restr(...)

A ward at Naas General Hospital in Co Kildare has been closed due to a suspected Covid-19 outbreak, with a number of staff currently self-isolating as(...)

Six days before the first confirmed coronavirus death in the country, the national body representing private and voluntary nursing homes announced it (...)

Transmission of the coronavirus in a Dublin nursing home has become widespread in recent days and is now affecting more than a fifth of the 200 reside(...)

A 17-year-old who was hospitalised with the coronavirus has told of his shock after testing positive for the condition as he thought he was “untouchab(...)

Coronavirus clusters have been identified in 140 Irish nursing homes and people aged over 65 have accounted for 90 per cent of the deaths in the State(...)