COVID: BA.2.86 variant causes concern

The 262 registration period has begun and there is a lot of activity in the car-buying market. New car registrations are falling, EV sales are booming and the number of used imports is soaring. Joining Pat to make sense of it all is Sunday Independent motoring editor, Geraldine H ...  Show more

Joining Pat to run through the main stories in the Sunday papers is Brenda Power, Columnist with The Irish Independent & The Daily Mail 

Last week, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory released alarming news: At least one variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 had significantly mutated to become more contagious. If true, this would have major implications. A new variant could, for example, hamper e ...  Show more

New variants of the coronavirus are circulating around the globe and causing some concern among experts. One in particular, variant B.1.1.7, has been found to more easily spread from one person to another.  This new variant has already been identified in several states in the US. ...  Show more

All of a sudden it seems like everyone knows someone who has tested positive for COVID. Are we back in a wave? How bad could it get? How effective will the new vaccine be? What do we actually know about COVID now that we didn’t before, and will it protect us? We talk to Atlantic ...  Show more

Fast-moving variants of the coronavirus seen in England, South Africa and Brazil have sparked concern around the world. Researchers worry some may diminish the potency of existing vaccines and complicate efforts to escape the pandemic. As COVID-19 cases started to climb in early ...  Show more