Broadcaster Mark Cagney has revealed he had two strokes in January and said despite losing a quarter of his sight he feels “incredibly lucky” to be alive.
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A spokesperson for the Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said it is the Government s hope that by autumn, the Irish population will be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The comments came after earlier suggestions by Justice Minister Helen McEntee that the Government did not anticipate having everyone vaccinated in the coming year.
A spokesperson for Minister Donnelly told Newstalk while the aim is to have everyone vaccinated by the autumn of 2021, this is reliant on the authorisation and availability of vaccines.
The Government has an indicative delivery schedule for the next two months, however a further breakdown is not currently available.
This means close contacts of a confirmed case are no longer being advised to get tested.
Dr Holohan explained: Testing and tracing is an exercise in containment and we are no longer in a containment phase. However, it is imperative that if you are a close contact of a confirmed case you restrict your movements and contact your GP immediately if you develop symptoms.
It comes a day after the
Some 490 people with the disease were in Irish hospitals on Thursday morning - a figure which has almost doubled in the past week.
While the figure in ICU stands at 42.
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The Justice Minister Helen McEntee has expressed her sympathies with the family of a Dublin man who was shot dead by Gardaí on Wednesday.
George Nkencho
was shot in a Clonee housing estate after members of the force responded to reports of a man with a knife in a local shopping centre.
Bullets were fired from an official Garda firearm after the man made several threats, and an attempt to resolve the situation with non-lethal force failed.
The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) is now investigating the incident.
Minister McEntee told Late Breakfast With Mark Cagney many people are shocked.