It will be a masked and restrained St. Patrick's Day in Ireland, with the government maintaining its highest "Level 5" restriction on businesses and the Irish public as it attempts to turn back a January spike in coronavirus cases, the America Media website reports today (March 11, 2011).
A year ago on March 11, Ireland suffered its first COVID-19 death. This year on March 6 its prime minister, Micheal Martin, celebrated the "good news" that Ireland had distributed half a million coronavirus vaccinations about two months after the first inoculation.
With a population of 4.8 million, Ireland has reported 225,000 cases and 4,500 deaths from the coronavirus. It is one of the 10 European countries where the British variant of the virus is now dominant.
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