Coronavirus Pandemic

    WE CAN’T COPE WITH WHAT WE HAVE, NEVER MIND NEW VARIANTS’

    A MONTH ago, HSE public health specialist Dr Anne Dee reached her limit. After a year of battling Covid on the frontline - without adequate...

    Schools warned to prepare for threat from new variants

    By Michael O'Farrell and Valerie Hanley FAILURE to adopt appropriate measures against new Covid variants of concern could see schools closed again, the latest risk...

    Fear Over Failure On Virus Sick Pay

    By Michael O'Farrell and Valerie Hanley COVID experts have criticised Government failure to tackle the virus at meat plants, which are at high risk of...

    Vaccine IT Portal Fails Our Imposter Test

    By Michael O'Farrell - Investigations Editor THE HSE's new vaccination portal is unable to recognise imposters seeking to leapfrog others on the priority list, the...

    RACE TO FIND MUTANT VARIANTS

    By Michael O'Farrell Investigations Editor ACCELERATING Covid-19 mutations may be on the way to making the virus immune to treatments and vaccinations, a leading member of...

    LIFE AND DEATH ON THE FRONTLINE

    By Michael O'Farrell - Investigations Editor SCENARIO 1: You are a senior nurse in a nursing home. It's the middle of the night and you're between...

    EXPECT 1,000 DEATHS WITHIN WEEKS

    By Michael O'Farrell - Investigations Editor The healthcare system is facing an unprecedented wave of deaths with as many as 1,000 further Covid fatalities feared...

    If 2020 felt like Covid hell, then 2021 will be COVID PURGATORY

    By Michael O'Farrell - Investigations Editor THE arrival of the first Covid-19 vaccinations into Ireland offered a hopeful new dawn for 2021. During the current surge...

    They put us through hell and we are still trying to grieve for our daughter

    Alisha's parents hope her legacy will help end the trauma of sealed-coff in Covid burials

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