Ministry Of Health
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‘We are not here for ceremony’: The indignity of a coronavirus burial
- Africa
- September 22, 2020, 18:34
The funeral started like any other. Plastic chairs were spaced out under marquees. Steam rose as women cooked big vats of food on charcoal fires besid(...)

Coronavirus: EU steps up vaccine efforts as authorities brace for tough winter
- Europe
- August 31, 2020, 20:22
The European Commission has announced funding of €400 million towards a World Health Organisation (WHO) vaccine initiative as global authorities grapp(...)

Coronavirus: Virus expands grip worldwide as US nears 100,000 deaths
- World
- May 27, 2020, 08:33
South Korea reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections in weeks on Wednesday and India reported another record single-day jump of more (...)

Trump heads to golf course as US coronavirus cases pass 1.6m
- World
- May 23, 2020, 08:09
US president Donald Trump has visited one of his golf courses at the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend as he urged states to reopen following (...)

Coronavirus: US scientist says ‘don’t count’ on vaccine as global cases pass 5 million
- World
- May 21, 2020, 06:48
A top US scientist has said that people should not count on a Covid-19 vaccine being developed any time soon, as global infections were set to pass 5(...)

How Taiwan has confounded predictions in fending off the worst of Covid-19
- Health & Family
- April 19, 2020, 06:01
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers at John Hopkins University predicted that Taiwan would be one of the countries most affected b(...)

Irish couples still stranded in Peru caught in ‘dire situation’
- Irish News
- April 17, 2020, 17:15
A retired Irish doctor still stranded in Peru because of the Covid-19 pandemic has said he and his family are caught in a “dire situation” after being(...)

Some protection equipment from China ‘not ideal’, HSE says
- Health
- April 3, 2020, 02:34
The Health Service Executive has admitted some elements of the first batch of personal protection equipment (PPE) imported from China this week “are n(...)

Irish in Peru: ‘There are people still stuck here and they need not to forget about us’
- World
- March 31, 2020, 08:25
While most Irish travellers stranded in Peru by the coronavirus pandemic arrived home on Monday, for a small number still stuck there the wait to get (...)

‘My heart is broken in two’: Irish healthcare workers abroad respond to Ireland’s call
- Abroad
- March 23, 2020, 15:06
The number of coronavirus cases and deaths are increasing in Ireland and globally. In preparation for the expected surge in demand for care, the Gover(...)