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The Government has issued a list of workers who can continue to leave home to go to work amid the latest restrictions.

The National Car Testing Service has said that its test centres will not re-open tomorrow.

The Minister for Health Simon Harris has said the current measures introduced by the Government were "as tough as it can get".

Two further people with coronavirus have died in Northern Ireland, taking the region's death toll to 15.

Brian O'Donovan reports from Washington as the United States heads towards becoming the new global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.

An estimated 120 Irish citizens are trying to leave Peru and get home to their families. Ciaran Mullooly charts the progress of one young Co Westmeath man and his wife, setting out on a 10,000km journey home from Lima during the Covid-19 crisis this weekend.

There has been some confusion about the Government's new 2km exercise restriction - what exactly does this mean and how far can you go?

28,000 mortgage payment break applications have been processed or are currently being worked through by the banks in the last week since the initiative got under way.

The Construction Industry Federation has directed its members to cease working on building sites and secure them immediately.

Another 260 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the death total there to 1,019.

'Summer time' in Ireland will officially begin this weekend with clocks going forward by one hour on Sunday morning.

The Government has said all those who are over 70 or who are extremely medically vulnerable should "cocoon" for the next two weeks.  But what does that actually mean?

The Department of Education has confirmed that the planned resumption of free 'school meals' for around 250,000 school children can go ahead, despite the new restrictions on movement.

While the world can seem a dark place at present, there are rays of light, with people facing the Covid-19 storm by coming together while staying apart. We want to share these stories.

The coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 551,000 people and killed almost 24,900 across the world. The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has issued an update on the repatriation of Irish citizens who are stranded abroad after flights were grounded due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Spain's coronavirus death toll rose by 832 cases overnight to 5,690, the health ministry has said.

Economist Colm McCarthy has warned the recovery of the Irish economy post-Covid-19 is linked to external factors, especially to the swift recovery of the US economy.

US civil rights leader Reverend Joseph Lowery, a key ally of Martin Luther King, has died aged 98.

American journalists expelled by China are welcome to set up shop in Taiwan, foreign minister Joseph Wu said on Saturday as the democratic island burnishes its credentials as a regional free speech haven.