The main stories making the headlines across Cork
The Chief Medical Officer has once again called on people to interrupt the transmission of Covid-19.
Dr. Tony Holohan says the profile of the disease is continuing to deteriorate and that individual action is needed to suppress the virus.
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New graduated fines are to be introduced for people who break coronavirus rules.
The cabinet sub-committee has agreed to ask the departments of health and justice to draw them up.
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The government's set to announce a 5 euro per week increase to the living alone allowance in next week's Budget.
According to the Irish Independent, the increase from 14 to 19 euro will affect 160,000 pensioners, widows and widowers and 40,000 people with disabilities.
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A record 612,000 people are waiting for their first outpatient consultation in hospital.
250,000 have been on the waiting list for at least a year.
