The health system is "under increasing strain" and people are being urged to avoid getting infected with Covid-19 as 1,421 people are now in hospital and 120 in ICU.

Indonesian authorities have said they have located black box recorders from the Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed yesterday shortly after take-off with 62 people on board.

Mike Pence will attend the upcoming inauguration of Joe Biden, multiple media reports have said, the vice president becoming the latest longtime loyalist to abandon an increasingly isolated President Donald Trump.

The total number of Covid-19 cases in the United States has surpassed 22.09 million, as England's NHS is facing the "most dangerous situation" in living memory, and Vietnam is to limit inbound flights ahead of Lunar New Year.

Fire crews are continuing to dampen down the fire that broke out in Cork harbour yesterday.

Snowstorms in Spain left three people dead and caused chaos across much of the country, trapping motorists and shutting down Madrid's air and rail links, with more expected.

Firefighters will remain on-site overnight at the R&H Hall animal feed storage facility in Cork harbour which has been extensively damaged by fire.

Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory Cillian de Gascun has said there is an expectation that at some point during this coming week the cases will plateau.

The supply chain between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK is a "boat breakdown" away from collapse as a result of the post-Brexit regulatory border, the UK's Road Haulage Association has warned.

The UK has passed the grim milestone of three million cases during the pandemic after the government announced another 59,937 new cases.

The Department of Health has reported nine further deaths of people with Covid-19, while 4,842 new cases of the disease have also been identified.

Twitter has 'permanently suspended' US President DonaldTrump's account due to the risk of further incitement of violence, the social media company said.

China confirmed that preparations were still ongoing for a World Health Organization mission to Wuhan to investigate the origins of Covid-19, following a rare rebuke from the UN body over a delay to the long-planned trip.

Dublin Fire Brigade is at the scene of a large fire at an industrial estate in Ballyfermot.

In the weeks to come, the full impact of Brexit will become more and more apparent. Consumers and retailers on the island of Ireland will have to get used to the consequences.

An Indonesian budget airline jet is feared to have crashed into the sea after the Boeing 737 lost contact with air traffic control, with flight tracking data showing the plane plunged into a steep dive several minutes after take-off.

Around 60 people have protested outside RTÉ in Donnybrook in Dublin against a sketch shown on RTÉ One TV on New Year's Eve.

Australia's third-largest city of Brisbane was in its first day of a snap lockdown today, with officials elsewhere on "high alert" over the emergence of more contagious strains of Covid-19.

CNN journalist Donie O'Sullivan, from Cahersiveen in Kerry, has said he is "overwhelmed" by the support and kind messages from back home following his coverage of the US Capitol riot on Wednesday.