Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Covid 19-Government lifts restrictions but global pandemic continues

By Conor Payne On Friday, 21 January, Taoiseach Micheal Martin announced the sudden abandonment of most Covid restrictions. Limits on capacity and opening times in hospitality and other venues were lifted, as were the restrictions on numbers at sports events, concerts etc.

Jan 28, 2022

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Criminal government inaction as Covid cases soar

Extended editorial from the upcoming issue of The Socialist The beginning of a new year is once again being dominated by an unprecedented, sharp spike in Covid cases. Both here in Ireland and globally, this new wave of the pandemic fuelled by

Jan 8, 2022

Covid-19 Pandemic·World News

Capitalist world leaders are to blame for COVID nightmare

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative, our sister organisation in the US “Everyone has COVID.” If you live in New York, you’ve heard or seen someone say this in the last 24 hours. For the second day in a row, the state broke

Dec 27, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·World News

Austria: Discontent over Covid measures further undermining confidence in ruling elites

With the fourth wave of Corona accelerating and fear over the newly emerging ‘Omicron’ mutation growing, governments are desperately looking for a way out. Their half-hearted measures during the last two years of the pandemic were designed in such a way as

Dec 1, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·World News

New ‘Omicron’ variant: another warning of capitalism’s inability to end pandemic

By Dan O’Rourke The new strain of Covid-19 (B.1.1.529) found in Botswana and South Africa has been named Omicron by the WHO, which has labelled it a ‘variant of concern’. Some experts have described it as the “worst” variant yet. Similar to

Nov 26, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

New Covid surge — Government inaction on health means major investment needed

Editorial from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party Recent weeks have seen an alarming rise in the number of Covid cases in the state. In turn there has been a spike in the number of hospital admissions and patients in ICU.

Nov 3, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·News & Analysis

Maternity care during Covid: state misogyny continues

By Emma Quinn An outpouring of anger and frustration has erupted again in light of the release of the third series of “The Rotunda” on RTE. Filming of the docuseries coincided with strict restrictions on maternity services. The reality of maternity care

Sep 9, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

Demand schools are made safe — reject mass infection of the young

By Ruth Coppinger, secondary school teacher and parent With schools reopening, many parents and young people will no doubt be delighted. We all want an end to the pandemic and the physical and mental toll it’s taking on young people. Keeping schools open

Sep 2, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·Environment·World News

Climate catastrophe and Covid spurs human catastrophe in the Global South

By Robert Cosgrave The Covid crisis, reflecting the existing global inequalities of capitalism, hit the Global South, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, with extreme severity. What measly healthcare infrastructure was available crumbled in the face of the virus. Non-existent safety nets The economic impact

Aug 16, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·World News

Covid Crisis: Mandatory vaccination?

By Sonja Grusch, ISA Austria Large protests have shaken France and its President Macron, who wants to implement mandatory vaccination for at least health and care staff, firefighters and a number of other professions. Reports that 100,000 attended one protest and 160,000

Aug 6, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·News & Analysis

The Delta threat: Premature opening of hospitality as Covid cases spike

By Cathal Curran The more contagious Delta variant of Covid is driving record infection numbers across Europe. The Netherlands, for example, recorded over 10,000 new cases in one day. Delta is now the dominant strain here. This forms the backdrop of the

Jul 13, 2021

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