Last week, as he served up more harsh medicine in the form of an extended lockdown, Taoiseach Micheál Martin tried to sweeten the pill by promising that "the end is truly in sight," - but is he right?

How soon after we get vaccines will things return to normal? Will we be able to see family, go to the pub, attend a concert, or watch a match in a stadium?

Will we still have to wear a mask? Will there still be lockdowns? RTÉ's This Week programme asked a number of vaccine and public health experts to try to answer some of these questions. "It’s unclear to me what an end to this pandemic will look like," said Dr Kim

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The Latest: Philippine capital sets restrictions amid surge

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine capital placed two villages and two hotels on lockdown Thursday and police have renewed warnings against kissing and other “public display of affection” after a new surge in coronavirus infections.

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New Zealand pushes to end global tariffs on virus supplies

WELLINGTON – New Zealand is pushing for nations around the world to end tariffs on face masks, syringes and other supplies needed to battle the coronavirus pandemic.

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Why experiencing some side-effects after Covid vaccination could be good

Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out across the world, a growing band of recipients are complaining of being flattened by side effects, especially after a second dose. Recipients describe symptoms from fever to fatigue that is more profound than the jolt some get from a seasonal flu shot.

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Danforth pharmacy accommodates walk-ins on first day of vaccine rollout

Select pharmacy locations administered their first vaccines Wednesday and at one location on the Danforth, eligible people were able to walk right in and get a shot. Miranda Anthistle has the details.

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Bhagavad Gita inspires India to help humanity with Covid-19 vaccines: PM Modi

pic.twitter.com/JIJ3Ys3exqAlso Read | Dissecting Ola’s audacious electric dreamsOver the past few weeks, India has supplied Indian-made C-19 vaccines to over 25 countries, including Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Barbados and Cote d'Ivoire. Forty-nine more countries will be supplied in the coming days, ranging from Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean to Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands.Swami Chidbhavanandaji is the founder of Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam Ashram at Thirupparaithurai, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu.

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Former U.S. presidents to urge Americans to get coronavirus vaccine in new ads

coronavirus vaccine alongside former First Ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Rosalynn Carter, the Ad Council announced on Thursday.“The science is clear. These vaccines will protect you and those you love from this dangerous and deadly disease,” said President Bush in one of the PSAs with Obama and Clinton, urging Americans to get vaccinated.“That’s the first step to ending the pandemic and moving our country forward,” said Obama.

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Cognizant extends covid vaccination cost to cover all employees, support staff

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. has extended the coverage of covid vaccination cost for all its employees in India, including its contract, support staff, and security personnel.

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Stephen Fry gets coronavirus jab at Westminster Abbey and says it was 'wonderful moment'

Actor Stephen Fry has described receiving his coronavirus vaccination at Westminster Abbey as a "wonderful moment".

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Susan Sarandon says she's open to dating 'someone who's been vaccinated' for coronavirus

Susan Sarandon is ready to get her love life on the road. The 74-year-old actress recently appeared on the "Divorced Not Dead" podcast and discussed love and relationships.

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Billboards thanking PM Modi for providing Covid vaccines come up in Canada's Toronto

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EMA expected to clear the way for Johnson and Johnson vaccine

The European Medicines Agency is expected to clear the way for the European Commission to approve the Covid-19 vaccine made by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, later today.

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Long line forms at Pennsylvania Convention Center in hopes of getting leftover vaccine doses

PHILADELPHIA - A shockingly long line formed at the Pennsylvania Convention Center’s FEMA vaccine site on Wednesday after social media was abuzz with talks about overflow of vaccine available. Those first in line got there before 7 a.m. all without appointments.

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Government opens up COVID vaccinations to people aged 85+ early

The B.C. Government has announced that people aged 85 years and over can begin booking COVID-19 vaccine appointments at Noon on Thursday, four days ahead of schedule.

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News Releases from Department of Health | Hawai‘i COVID-19 Daily News Digest March 10, 2021

Department of Health:https://health.hawaii.gov/coronavirusdisease2019/what-you-should-know/current-situation-in-hawaii/Daily and Weekly Preliminary Vaccine Administration UpdatesThe charts below will be included in the Daily News Digest, Monday-Friday.Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Available Across Hawai‘iInitial public reaction to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in Hawai‘i has been very positive, highlighting its value in the fight against COVID-19.

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Orlando seniors stuck in isolation to receive free ride to get COVID-19 vaccine

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – In an effort to make the COVID-19 vaccine accessible to all seniors, Orange County Commissioner Regina Hill announced a partnership with Pegasus Transportation to provide rides to seniors to and from the FEMA site at Valencia College.

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Beating COVID-19: Senior citizens take swing at virus-shaped piñata after getting vaccinated

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Residents at a senior living community took a literal swing at COVID-19 when they beat a piñata, in the shape of the coronavirus, after getting vaccinated.The Westminster-Canterbury on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia Beach, Virginia, held a party on March 9, a few weeks after its campus reached herd immunity when 99% of its more than 700 residents were fully vaccinated. "So much of this past year has been challenging," the community’s Director of Public Relations Ashley Allman told FOX Television Stations Wednesday. "Residents not being able to go out and hug family members just because our seniors, our residents, are a very vulnerable population."RELATED: Biden announces U.S. is buying 100M additional doses of J&J

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AstraZeneca rollout update

The province has now released its priority list of at-risk Manitobans who will be eligible to get the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Brittany Greenslade reports.

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Who will get B.C’s first batch of AstraZeneca vaccine?

B.C. Is set to receive some 50,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, but it comes with an April 2 expiration date, and so far there are no details on the plan to distribute it. Richard Zussman reports

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Alberta infectious disease researcher explains why you can still spread COVID-19 after vaccination

Dr. Craig Jenne, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Calgary, joins Global’s Joel Senick to discuss why people who get their first shot of COVID-19 vaccine should not stop following public health restrictions.

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85+ can book COVID-19 vaccinations in B.C. beginning Thursday

After a dismal start to the vaccination appointment process in the province — there’s some very good news to report. Keith Baldrey has more on the announcement just made by Health Minister Adrian Dix about the next age group to book.

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Winnipeg restaurants ‘shocked’ after city attaches $500 fee to patio program

temporary patio permit program has caught them by surprise.“We were just taken aback on the messaging behind this,” says Shaun Jeffrey, executive director of the Manitoba Restaurant and Foodservices Association.“Our industry just cannot afford that cost at this point. For the most part, we haven’t even reopened yet.”Restaurants in Manitoba can operate at 50 per cent capacity, but can only seat tables containing members of the same household, up to five people.As some restaurants around the city opened their patios last weekend amid double-digit temperatures, they weren’t exempt to the rule.PATIO SZN! Patios are open at both locations.

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British Columbia to open vaccine registration for seniors aged 85+ Thursday at noon

‘We let them down’: Telus CEO apologizes for problems with VCH vaccine booking system Dix said Telus had improved the service it provided over the last two days. So far the province has registered 37,361 people for vaccination appointments that will start next week.

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Susan Sarandon Is Interested In Dating Any ‘Man Or Woman’ Who’s Received A COVID-19 Vaccination

Susan Sarandon is open to a new relationship — but she only very specific criteria.

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Proceed with caution: Edmonton doctor weighs in on COVID-19 ‘turning point’

Vaccines are going into the arms of more and more Albertans –and it feels like change is in the air. After a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, do we dare let ourselves feel optimistic? Morgan Black has the answer.

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Theater Owners, Hollywood Guilds Applaud Passage of $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Package

Theater owners praised U.S. House of Representative lawmakers on Wednesday for approving President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief.

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US will share Covid-19 vaccines with world if there is surplus: Biden

United States will share coronavirus vaccines with other countries if it ends up with a surplus, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday."If we have a surplus, we are going to share with the rest of the world," Biden said noting the US has already committed USD 4 billion to Covax, the United Nations program for distributing the vaccine across the world according to The Hill.Also Read | Dissecting Ola’s audacious electric dreams"This is not something that can be stopped by a fence, no matter how high you build a fence or a wall... So we're not going to be ultimately safe until the world is safe.

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Nancy Pelosi Does A Hip Shimmy After House Passes Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill — Watch

Fans are loving that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got in a little victory dance when announcing that the House of Representatives had passed President Joe Biden‘s $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, sending it to the 78-year-old POTUS for his signature. “On this vote, the yeas are 220, the nays are 211. The motion is adopted,” Pelosi joyously announced when reading off the final tally. The 80-year-old then banged her gavel and shimmied her hips back and forth in a quick happy dance.

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AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine ‘not unsafe’ for chronic conditions: Hinshaw

Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw says the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is “not unsafe” for those with chronic conditions, but health officials wanted to offer other vaccines based on recommendations.

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Brampton funeral home licence suspended after 60+ people reportedly attended service

The Brampton Crematorium and Visitation Centre will temporarily close after it was discovered it had more than 60 people at a service last month, the Bereavement Authority of Ontario says. Miranda Anthistle has the details.

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COVID-19: Over 11,000 eligible Albertans book AstraZeneca vaccines on 1st day of eligibility

Dr. Deena Hinshaw says Alberta saw a high demand for the AstraZenca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, the first day of eligibility.

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Nev. Democratic Party in upheaval after progressive takeover

LAS VEGAS – The state Democratic Party in Nevada has for years been among the strongest in country, buttressed by the state's powerful former senator, Harry Reid, and credited with helping Democrats chalk up wins in the swing state since 2016.

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Saskatchewan announces online booking system for COVID-19 vaccine

Saskatchewan’s health minister Paul Merriman announced Wednesday that the province was rolling out its new COVID-19 vaccine online booking system. Starting at 8 a.m.

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Mask-wearing, physical distancing to remain ‘part of our lives’ for some time: Njoo

Canada’s deputy chief public health officer, Dr.

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Biden says surplus COVID-19 vaccines to be shared after Americans get them first

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Americans would be the first to receive COVID-19 vaccines, but any surplus would be shared with the world.

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Toronto will get early access to provincial vaccination portal

To help avoid delays in signing up people 80 years old and above, Ontario is allowing Toronto to have early access to the online booking portal. Despite expressing confidence in the system, the province is warning people against overloading the system.

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Mask-wearing, physical distancing to remain ‘part of life’ for some time: Njoo

coronavirus vaccination efforts, Canadians may have a long way to go before they can completely bid goodbye to masks.As we close in on a year of the pandemic, personal and public health measures such as “physical distancing, mask-wearing and handwashing” will continue to be important and “may be part of our lives for some time,” Dr. Howard Njoo, Canada’s deputy chief public health officer, said during a press conference Wednesday.

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COVID-19 vaccine allocation in southeastern Pennsylvania counties hasn’t been unfair, Wolf says

PENNSYLVANIA - Getting as many people vaccinated as possible is arguably the biggest step toward normalcy. However, getting the shot continues to be a frustrating process for many people, especially in southeastern Pennsylvania counties.Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf says COVID-19 vaccine allocation to Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties hasn't been unfair.After a tour of a new vaccine clinic in Lancaster and press conference highlighting transportation options for those in southcentral counties, FOX 29 asked him about the southeastern counties where leaders sent a letter this week saying they were shortchanged and are calling on more doses and more data.Gov.

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Pa wedding venues look to Gov Wolf to expand capacity in order to save their businesses

DREXEL HILL, Pa. - It’s time to save love. More specifically, Save PA Love.Countless weddings were scaled-down, postponed, or canceled outright, due to the pandemic.

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Some Ontario pharmacies gear up to administer coronavirus vaccines

Over 325 Ontario pharmacies have been given the go-ahead to vaccinate Ontarians against COVID-19. Shallima Maharaj finds out what they’re doing to prepare.

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Ontario expands COVID-19 vaccine rollout to family doctors, pharmacy pilot to start Friday

COVID-19 vaccine at their doctor’s office as soon as this weekend, the government said Wednesday as it further expanded its immunization effort.The initiative will start in Toronto, Peel Region, Hamilton, Guelph, Peterborough, and Simcoe-Muskoka, with doctors administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot. The province plans to expand the program as vaccine supply increases.Physicians will initially have a limited amount of vaccines to work with, receiving 29,500 out of 194,500 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot that arrived in the province this week.

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Biden boosts US vaccine stockpile as world waits

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Wednesday directed his administration to order another 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, growing a likely U.S. surplus of doses later this year when much of the rest of the world struggles with deep shortages.

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Former Seminole County superintendent candidate no longer interested in job after ‘flawed’ process

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – Chad Farnsworth who was once selected as the next superintendent of Seminole County Schools, before the board voted to revoke its offer, told the district in a strongly worded letter he is no longer interested in the position.

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COVID-19: 8 new cases for Peterborough area; second vaccine doses completed for LTC residents

Peterborough Public Health reported eight new cases of COVID-19 and two more variant cases on Wednesday afternoon.According to the health unit’s COVID-19 tracker website as of 4:10 p.m., there are now 81 active cases in its jurisdiction, down from 86 active cases reported Tuesday. The health unit serves Peterborough, Peterborough County, Curve Lake First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation.There are now 89 presumed variant of concern cases, another increase from the 87 variants reported Tuesday.

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Volusia County family pushes for safer pedestrian crosswalks after daughter is killed

ORMOND BY THE SEA, Fla. – A recently published list from Smart Growth America ranked the area of Daytona and Ormond Beach as the fifth most dangerous in the U.S. for pedestrians.

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Seven Greater Manchester schools hit by Covid cases just days after reopening from lockdown

Westfield Community School in Wigan, we've since been told about further cases at the following schools: Some of the cases have been confirmed via the rapid lateral flow tests now being carried out on students in secondaries and colleges and on staff working with all age groups in education. These pick up on those people who have the virus but aren't experiencing any symptoms.Among those is Co-op Academy Failsworth, where there was a positive case in Year 10.

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Another 11 people die in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus

direct to your inboxAnother 11 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's coronavirus hospital death toll has now reached 5,699, the latest NHS figures show.Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust recorded three new deaths each.Elsewhere, two more deaths were confirmed by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust: the organisation in charge of the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) and Wythenshawe Hospital.Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust and Bolton NHS Foundation Trust recorded one more death respectively.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your

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Susan Sarandon Wants to Date Anyone Who's COVID Vaccinated: 'I Don't Care If It's a Man or a Woman'

Susan Sarandon wants to date someone – and she has a requirement!

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Biden to buy more COVID vaccine doses as stimulus bill passes

President Joe Biden is expected to announce that he is procuring an additional 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine for the second half of 2021 during a meeting today with J&J and Merck executives.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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