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IRELAND

A man sits on a bench outside The Auld Triangle in Dublin. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• A further 44 deaths related to Covid-19 have been confirmed, and there are a further 597 confirmed cases
• Keelings Fruit said that only 40 people locally have applied for work as seasonal fruit pickers after the company flying in nearly 200 Bulgarian workers this week.
• Health Minister Simon Harris said that he hopes to lift restrictions placed upon the Irish public at the beginning of May
• The HSE said that staff and residents at nursing homes will be tested; centres with at least one confirmed case of Covid-19 are being prioritised
• The case of Lisa Smith, the former Defence Forces member charged with membership of ISIS, has been adjourned for three months
• The Social Democrats has written to the leaders of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil looking for economic projections as they consider the offer to enter government.

WORLD

A worker at the Manuel Belgrano public hospital stretches outside the public hospital on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Natacha Pisarenko Natacha Pisarenko

#US: A growing wave of unrest over coronavirus lockdown measures appears to be rising in the US, with a number of protests taking place this week in various states. 

#OVER THE WATERS: The UK’s lockdown measures have been extended for three more weeks as the number of coronavirus cases passed 100,000. 

#REVISED FIGURES: The central Chinese city of Wuhan has revised its coronavirus death toll to 3,869, increasing the number of fatalities by 1,290. 

#CHERNOBYL: Thick smoke hung over Ukraine’s capital Kiev as forest fires smouldered on in the Chernobyl nuclear zone, but city officials said no radiation spike had been detected.

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