Ireland is at risk of a significant resurgence of the coronavirus and care must be taken to avoid the infection being brought by people from one county to another post-lockdown, the expert tracking the disease here warned yesterday.
The coronavirus might have been spreading in China as early as August last year, according to Harvard Medical School research based on satellite images of hospital travel patterns and search engine data, but China dismissed the report as "ridiculous".
Governments around the world are responding forcefully to the Covid-19 crisis with a combined fiscal and monetary response that has already reached 10pc of global GDP.
There may be some signs the economy is creeping back into life after it experienced severe Covid-related shocks in March and April that pushed it into the deepest recession on record.
'Little Britain' has been removed from the iPlayer because "times have changed" since the comedy first aired, the BBC has said.
It's a bit like waking from a disturbing dream. As you open your eyes, the outlines of the room and the furniture are familiar, the world looks more or less unchanged, but everything feels unmistakably different.
Munster Rugby chief executive Ian Flanagan has warned that the province will continue to lose out on the vast majority of its income as long as the sport is played behind closed doors.
