Vaccine brings hope one year after pandemic declared

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11.03.2021 - 11:03

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It is one year since the coronavirus threat was declared a pandemic, with vaccinations offering hope but much of world's population still enduring highly restricted lives with no clear path back to normality.

It is also one year to the day since the first death of a person due to Covid-19 in Ireland was reported. Over the past 12 months the virus has claimed the lives of 4,499 people in Ireland.

The enormity of the challenge entering the second year of the pandemic was highlighted yesterday in Brazil, where a surge fuelled by more contagious new variants saw a record 2,286 deaths reported for the day.

Since first emerging in China at the end of 2019, the coronavirus has killed more than 2.6 million people and forced unprecedented curbs on

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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

Vaccine brings hope one year after pandemic declared

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