Covid-19

This bank holiday weekend should have been among the busiest of the year for Dublin Airport. If things had been normal, around 400,000 passengers would have passed through the terminals over the four days. But these aren't normal times, thanks to Covid-19. Instead, the place is like a ghost town, with grounded planes littering the…

Updated / Monday, 4 May 2020 08:10 Social Justice Ireland says the basic Jobseekers Allowance is €81 below the poverty line Social Justice Ireland (SJI) is calling on the next Government to use the Covid-19 illness payment as a basis to reform the social welfare system. The Think Tank says the increase in the emergency payment…

The number of Covid-19 cases has risen by 447 to a total of 6 783. This is the first time the numbers have increased by more than 400 cases in a day.Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize announced the increase on Sunday night, adding that eight more people had died. Of these, two died in the Western…

Six more people have died of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, all at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax.Nova Scotia is reporting that a total of 37 people have died from the virus. (Robert Guertin/CBC)Six more people have died of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, all at the Northwood long-term care home in Halifax. So far, 37 people…

MONTREAL -- Quebec public health officials announced Sunday that a computer error resulted in 1,317 missing positive COVID-19 cases between April 2-30. The province also announced a daily increase of 892 new COVID-19 from Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in Quebec to 31,865. Sixty-nine people have died of the virus in the last…

Tatiana Bernardo de Nascimento, 27, holds out her hands so the young couple delivering meals at her door can spray them with sanitizing alcohol. There’s no soap and the taps often run dry in her home in Paraisópolis, a working-class community of more than 100,000 residents that constitutes one of the city’s many favelas, or…

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The May Bank holiday is usually a busy weekend for tourism, but even though most major attractions across the world are closed due to Covid-19, you can still visit them virtually from the safety of your own armchair. Exploring the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia, listening to bird song as you hike the Grand Canyon and having a virtual…

Home > News > India > India reports highest single-day jump in coronavirus cases ahead of Lockdown 3.0 The total number of coronavirus cases in India neared 40,000 (PTI) 2 min read . Updated: 03 May 2020, 11:16 AM IST Edited By Surajit Dasgupta ( with inputs from ANI ) Currently, there are 28,046 active…