A further 10,618 people have contracted the coronavirus. Of these, 4,208 were PCR-confirmed while 6,410 were positive antigen tests registered through the HSE portal, the Department of Health confirmed this evening. There were 624 patients in hospital with the virus as of 8am this morning, of whom 66 are in intensive care. The latest figures […]
Residents at nursing homes throughout Kilkenny city and county will begin receiving the Covid-19 vaccine from just over a fortnight. Mount Carmel nursing home will be the first care facility to recieve the eagerly awaited Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, the first batches of which landed on Irish soil yesterday. Residents at all of the other nursing […]
A three-month extension to the Covid-19 assistance programme available to Kilkenny residents currently living in nursing homes has been confirmed. In one of his first major acts in his new role as Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly this week announced an extension to the COVID-19 Temporary Assistance Payment Scheme until the end of September. The original […]