Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has said the current 14-day incidence of Covid-19 remains more than double the rate experienced at the peak of the previous Level 5 restrictions in October.

Even though it has been the dominant, almost singular, political issue for the best part of a year now, Covid-19 has rarely been a polarising one, writes Mary Regan.

Pfizer BioNTech, makers of a Covid-19 vaccine, have said their product is effective against coronavirus variants that have emerged in Britain and South Africa.

A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic has left its quarantine hotel to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The Minister for Finance has said Government measures on mandatory quarantine are significant and dismissed criticism that they do not go far enough.

Brazil's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been ranked the world's worst, while New Zealand topped the class, according to research published by a leading Australian think-tank.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to praise the UK's collective response to coronavirus during a trip to Scotland, in a bid to counter record support for independence.

President Joe Biden has vowed the US would lead the world's charge to confront the "existential threat" of the climate crisis, as he signed a raft of new orders and announced a global summit in April.

Singapore has detained a 16-year-old for intending to attack two mosques, with authorities saying the plans were inspired by the killing of Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2019.

The executive board of the International Olympic Committee meeting to discuss the Tokyo Olympics is firmly backing the event going ahead this summer.

Staff from disability and mental health services who are not included in the current roll out of vaccines will be included in the programme as supply increases, according to a document seen by RTÉ News.

A portrait by Italian renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is expected to sell for more than $80 million (€66m) when it goes up for auction at Sotheby's in New York today.

The number of people infected with coronavirus is at the highest level recorded in England since May, according to a study.

The inauguration day photograph of a mitten-clad, glamour-defying Bernie Sanders perhaps was not the most flattering image of the US senator but it has become a remarkably charitable one.

Gardaí investigating the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Josh Dunne in Dublin last night say they are following a definite line of inquiry.

The European Union and AstraZeneca have failed to make a breakthrough over delayed Covid-19 vaccine deliveries, the bloc's health chief has said.

The US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which is manufacturing the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Germany's BioNTech, now considers that each vial contains six doses compared to five previously.

New Zealand has confirmed two new cases of the more virulent South African Covid-19 strain in the community, as investigators scrambled to determine how the virus breached border controls.