It is now nearly two months since voters went to the polls in an election in which Covid-19 did not feature, even once. Since then, the world has changed and changed utterly. We don't know when, or if, it will return to normal.
IN ANNOUNCING that the country would remain shut down through April because of the coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump and his advisers pointed to factors ranging from grim computer models showing millions of potential deaths to the unsettling sight of body bags lined up outside a New York hospital.
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Italian mayors and regional governors yesterday bought a page in 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung' newspaper to ask Germany for solidarity amid the coronavirus outbreak, saying that other states agreed to cut its debt after World War II.
Russian parliamentarians have approved legislation that would bring in jail sentences of up to seven years for people who flout quarantine rules as the number of coronavirus cases jumped by a record daily amount.
A leading Irish emergency medicine specialist has warned that in any worst-case Covid-19 scenario, patients will be assessed for critical care resources on their overall chances of survival.
On March 6, Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) urged members to introduce restrictions on the number of people who could visit their care facilities.
