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Pfizer starts vaccinating staff involved in vaccine roll out
- Health
- January 11, 2021, 12:24
Pfizer has started vaccinating staff who are considered essential to the supply of its Covid-19 vaccine in Ireland and across the EU. The company say(...)

Spain shovels its way out of worst snowstorm in recent memory
- Europe
- January 10, 2021
Emergency crews in central Spain have cleared 500 roads and rescued more than 1,500 people stranded in vehicles as the country slowly shovels its way (...)

Q&A: What you need to know about the South African Covid-19 variant
- Health
- January 9, 2021, 18:49
What is this new South African Covid-19 variant? As viruses make copies of themselves to spread, they mutate, making tiny genetic changes along the w(...)

EU paying less than US for supplies of Covid vaccine
- Health & Pharma
- January 9, 2021, 05:49
The new deal that doubles Ireland’s access to the Covid-19 vaccine developed by German company BioNTech makes the European Union the largest customer (...)

Millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses to be available monthly in second half of year
- Health
- January 8, 2021, 14:06
Millions of vaccine doses against Covid-19 will be available in Ireland monthly, but not until the second half of the year, according to officials wor(...)

Ireland in line for 3.3m additional Pfizer doses as EU doubles vaccine deal
- Health & Pharma
- January 8, 2021
Ireland is in line for an additional 3.3 million vaccines after the European Union reached a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 300 million more doses (...)

Vaccine scepticism among medics sparks alarm in Europe and US
- Europe
- January 7, 2021, 18:51
Signs that a relatively high number of healthcare workers are unwilling to receive the coronavirus vaccine in some parts of Europe and the US have ala(...)

Advice on Covid-19 vaccine for pregnant women published
- Health
- January 7, 2021, 12:19
Pregnant women getting the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 should be given it between the 14th and 33rd weeks of their pregnancy, Irish medic(...)

Moderna vaccine will help but it’s not the solution
- Health & Pharma
- January 7, 2021, 05:57
The approval of the Moderna Covid vaccine on Wednesday gives European governments another tool to try to suppress a surge in the virus that has led to(...)

Second Covid-19 vaccine wins EU approval
- Health & Pharma
- January 6, 2021, 12:30
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved a second Covid-19 vaccine for use in EU states, including Ireland. Moderna’s vaccine uses the same n(...)