Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 17January 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. There are still some concerns over lingering affects from holiday data irregularities. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Donnelly Interview: Minister defends vaccines and lays out jab timeline
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, in an exclusive interview, yesterday insisted no frontline workers have been deprived of the vaccine to ensure that the residential care system is fully vaccinated.
In a passionate defence of his tenure, Mr Donnelly hit out at the opposition for politicising the vaccine roll-out. He also confronted some of the criticism that has come from the opposition on the roll-out and reinforced a Government pledge to have the entire Irish population vaccinated by September.
‘We will be doing more and more communications but the initial focus had to be getting vaccines into people’s arms.’ Confirming a plan to have daily updates on vaccination figures and on the Covid tracker app, Donnelly also insisted that the roll-out is being done in an equitable a way as possible based on operational decisions by the HSE.
Sinn Féin is the most popular party in latest opinion poll
Irish Mail on Sunday/Ireland Thinks poll was published today. By Gráinne Ní Aodha Sunday 17 Jan 2021, 10:02 AM Jan 17th 2021, 10:02 AM 56,997 Views 174 Comments
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AN OPINION POLL published today by the Irish Mail on Sunday/Ireland Thinks puts Sinn Féin as the most popular party.
Sinn Féin is on 29%, one percentage point ahead of Fine Gael on 28%. Fianna Fáil is on 15%, the Green Party is on 3%.
The Labour Party – under the new leadership of Alan Kelly – is up to 5%, and the Social Democrats are still on 5%.