An international system to recognise vaccine certification will be needed to facilitate the return of travel and remove mandatory quarantine, public health chiefs have said. The issue is currently being examined at European Union level and by the Irish Government with a view to international travel resuming at some pointContinue Reading
Fully vaccinated people will no longer have to restrict their movements after being identified as a close contact of a Covid-19 case, under new proposals which the National Public Health Emergency Team will consider on Thursday. According to The Irish Times, Nphet will also consider proposals to relax the mask-wearingContinue Reading
A further 320 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed this evening by the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet). They also confirmed that there were no additional deaths this evening. With 320 cases this evening, it means there has now been a total of 238,466 confirmed cases of Covid-19Continue Reading
While the immediate impact of Covid-19 on our health and daily lives is abundantly clear, there are still plenty of question marks over long Covid and how it will continue to have an impact on people’s lives. The psychological effects are already starting to be seen while how serious anContinue Reading
DisobeyArt/Shutterstock Do you remember where you were when you heard that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic? For many of us, that day – March 11 2020 – was the day that everything changed. Suddenly, a rumbling news story about a mystery illness became a matter of concern forContinue Reading
British health authorities are currently hunting for an unknown person who has tested positive for a variant of the coronavirus known as P1. Sometimes called the Brazil variant, P1 is feared to be more transmissible than earlier forms of the coronavirus. It may also be partially resistant to immunity generatedContinue Reading
As a middling but competent clinician-scientist, I feel desperately sorry for the general public trying to make head or tail of some of the scientific discussions on the pandemic right now. Science is being done, disseminated, argued about – sometimes peer-reviewed if we are lucky – and then immediately rewrittenContinue Reading
shutterstock The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, a dry cough, and losing your sense of taste and smell. Other signs that are frequently seen include headaches, muscle and joint pain, nasal congestion, and fatigue. A less common symptom are rashes of various forms. These have been slower toContinue Reading
males_design/Shutterstock Coronavirus affects people differently – some infected develop life-threatening disease, while others remain asymptomatic. And a year aftere COVID-19 emerged, it’s still unclear why. To try and answer this question, researchers have started looking at the genetics of people who get COVID-19, and identifying links between developing the diseaseContinue Reading
The UK’s COVID-19 response has been criticised severely. Britain is among the countries with the highest number of recorded COVID-19 cases and deaths. But with its vaccination campaign, its fortunes seem to have turned. The UK is one of the world’s front runners when it comes to vaccine coverage. OnContinue Reading