Sligo’s Dr. Mike Ryan honoured by President Higgins
President Michael D Higgins has awarded the Presidential Distinguished Service Award to Curry, Co Sligo native Dr Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organisation’s Health Emergencies Programme. President Higgins made the presentation during a courtesy visit to Aras an Uachtarain. The award of the medal to Dr Ryan…
Top doc’s diagnosis: Sligoman Mike Ryan, of WHO, says people are mixing too much
Dr Mike Ryan, the Sligo-born Executive Director of the World Health Organisation’s Health Emergencies Programme, says people are now mixing too much when it comes to fighting the Covid pandemic. Countries across Europe have been hit with a new wave of Covid fuelled by the more transmissible Delta variant. Dr…
Ryan urges communities to work together to defeat Covid
The latest figures released by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre included five new reported Covid-19 deaths. There were sixty-nine new cases reported nationally. Five cases in Donegal and two in Sligo were confirmed yesterday. There were no additional cases in Leitrim. Localised Covid-19 restrictions could be imposed in…
Covid vaccine: Sligoman Mike Ryan of WHO says there’s still a long way to go
The World Health Organisation says there’s still a long way to go to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, despite an apparent breakthrough. Oxford University’s initial research into a potential jab for the virus has shown promising results. Healthy volunteers, involved in early-stage clinical trials, experienced a strong immune reaction. South…