Covid-19 Evening Update

Here's a reminder of today's main COVID headlines

There have been 575 newly confirmed cases of the virus here today, including 22 new cases in Cork.

However, there have been no additional deaths due to coronavirus today.

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The European Medicines Agency is expected to give its assessment of the blood clotting issues that have led to the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine, on Thursday. 

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Italy, Germany and France are the latest countries to temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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British Ambassador to Ireland Paul Johnson says Ireland would be high on the priority list, if the UK ended up with surplus vaccines to distribute in future