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Between 200 and 500 mostly older people die from flu in Ireland every winter. Photograph: iStock

Children aged two to 12 years are to receive the flu vaccine free of charge, Minister for Health Simon Harris has said. Any person aged between six (...)

Staff at Woodies in Carrickmines demonstrate some of the measures being prepared for the shop’s reopening on Monday. Photograph: Laura Hutton

Never have so many waited so long for so few shops to open. While the green light for handpicked retailers to resume trading this morning will be met (...)

Simon Harris warned that construction workers should not travel to sites unless they could do so safely. Photograph: iStock

The first moves to ease a two-month lockdown designed to curb the spread of Covid-19 take effect today, amid fears construction could become the next (...)

The Department of Health has confirmed that it is proposed consultants with private practice rights will be charged for the use of private rooms when the new hospital opens. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

Hospital consultants working in the planned new national children’s hospital will have to pay fees to the State to use facilities on the premises to s(...)

Staff at Woodies in Carrickmines, Dublin are seen preparing for the reopening of the store on Monday.  Photograph: Laura Hutton/The Irish Times

Some businesses and employers are preparing for the partial easing tomorrow of restrictions on commercial and social activity that have been in force (...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris during a media briefing on coronavirus, in Government Buildings, Dublin, on Friday. File photograph: Photocall Ireland/PA Wire

Updated regulations which will list those business that can and cannot reopen from Monday will be signed over the weekend, Minister for Health Simon H(...)

Earlier this week the State Claims Agency advised that specimens should not be accepted by private hospitals from medical specialists who had not signed up to the HSE’s proposed locum ‘Type A’ contract. Photograph: iStock

A controversial ban on private hospitals, now run by the State, from testing samples for potential cancers submitted by consultants who have not signe(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris met the dental association on Friday morning.

Dentists will be able to reopen for routine services if they can adhere to newly published infection control guidance, the Department of Health has co(...)

A sign at Westminster underground station in central London telling commuters that they need to wear a face covering as a precautionary measure against Covid-19. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images

Face coverings are not a “magic shield” to protect against Covid-19, Dr Tony Holohan, the State’s chief medical officer, has said. He was speaking af(...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: ‘I can confirm that it is safe to proceed with phase one.’ Photograph: Dave Meehan for The Irish Times

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced that the first phase of the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions is to go ahead next Monday. At a press conferen(...)

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