Leo Varadkar denies delay in vaccine rollout led to hundreds of deaths in nursing homes
A total of 1,543 staff and residents in care homes have lost their lives during the pandemic - 369 of those coming in January alone
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The death has been announced of the popular Mourneabbey-born Bishop Emeritus of Lancaster Diocese in the UK, Bishop Pádraig O Donoghue, who passed away last Sunday morning.
In a message posted on the Diocese of Westminster website on Monday Vicar General Mgr Martin Hayes wrote with the sad news that Bishop O Donoghue, formerly a priest and Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese had died. He was very much in our prayers since the notice circulated yesterday. He died peacefully at home in Nazareth House, Mallow in Co Cork where he had been living since 2013, close to family and friends and being cared for by the Sisters and staff there, wrote Mgr Hayes.
SAN DIEGO
On Monday, World War II bomber pilot Gerald “Jerry” Solheid of San Diego marked his 103rd birthday with his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Family members who gathered to visit Solheid at Nazareth House in Mission Valley were grateful for the arrival of the vaccine. But if anyone could get by without the much-anticipated shot, it might be Solheid. In December, he survived a bout with COVID-19; in 2009, he beat lymphoma; and in 1944, he escaped four B-24 bomber crash landings with little more than a scratch.
“He’s a very religious man, so we have always said he has an angel on his shoulder,” daughter-in-law Susan Solheid said on Monday.
By PAM KRAGEN | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: January 27, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) On Monday, World War II bomber pilot Gerald Jerry Solheid of San Diego marked his 103rd birthday with his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Family members who gathered to visit Solheid at Nazareth House in Mission Valley were grateful for the arrival of the vaccine. But if anyone could get by without the much-anticipated shot, it might be Solheid. In December, he survived a bout with COVID-19; in 2009, he beat lymphoma; and in 1944, he escaped four B-24 bomber crash landings with little more than a scratch.
COVID economy: Job cuts jolt tech, hotel, zoo, religious workers in Bay Area [Mercury News]
Jan. 25 Planned layoffs have jolted Bay Area hotels, tech companies, the Oakland Zoo, and a religious facility in a fresh round of job cutbacks that suggest the region’s employment market has yet to recover from coronavirus-linked ailments.
The new round of official layoff notices reported to the state Employment Development Department cast a forbidding shadow on the Bay Area economy, especially after the mammoth job losses suffered by the nine-county region during 2020.
For all of 2020, the Bay Area lost a staggering 360,800 jobs, a decline of 8.8% in the number of jobs in the region. During the same one-year period, Santa Clara County shed 79,400 jobs or a 6.9% drop; the East Bay lost 113,900 jobs, a 9.6% decline; the San Francisco-San Mateo region lost 118,100 jobs, a 9.9% drop, this news organization’s analysis of the EDD figures shows.