Most General Practice teams could be vaccinated against Covid 19 in a matter of weeks, according to a leading Kildare expert.
The first doses of the Moderna vaccine will be administered at three mass vaccination centres tomorrow.
The median age of people in Kildare diagnosed with Covid 19 is 39.
The Central Statistics Office data is for the period to January 8th.
By that date, 6,733 people in the county had been diagnosed with the virus.
173 people in Kildare have now died of Covid 19.
Exam officials could have to wait on a High Court ruling before Leaving cert predicted grades are considered this year, according to an educational expert.
Students have been calling for calculated marks to be reintroduced due to uncertainty over the traditional Leaving Cert.
In the UK, a man has been charged with assault after administering a fake Covid-19 vaccine to an elderly woman.
David Chambers, from Surbiton in London, was also charged with two counts of fraud over the incident.
Mr Chambers charged the woman £160 for the fake vaccination.
A further 26 Covid related deaths have been recorded in the North.
1,052 people tested positive for Coronavirus in the last 24 hours in Northern Ireland.
There are 840 patients being treated for Covid in hospital and 63 people are in ICU.
Senior figures in the Church of Ireland have apologised for the role the Church played in the Mother and Baby scandal.
Irish airspace was back at 1980s levels of flight traffic last year, according to the Irish Aviation Authority.
Air traffic controllers managed fewer than half a million journeys in total, a drop of 58 percent from 2019.
The first doses of the Moderna vaccine will be administered tomorrow.
They will be used to vaccinate GP teams at mass vaccination centres in three locations.
The clinics will be in Dublin, Galway and Portlaoise.
The Taoiseach says the country remains on course to have 4 million people vaccinated against Covid-19 by September.
Pfizer has confirmed it's temporarily reducing production of its vaccine - which will affect shipments later this month.
A strong earthquake has hit Indonesia, killing more than 40 people, toppling homes, buildings and triggering landslides.
It struck overnight on Sulawesi island with a magnitude of 6.2.
More than 200 Covid-19 patients in one part of northern Brazil are being flown to other areas of the country, because hospitals are running out of oxygen.
The local health system is facing collapse, following a sharp rise in cases and deaths.
Repairs to a ruptured water main in Kildare Town won't begin until Saturday morning.
The main serves the Cherryville area and the Old Monasterevin Road including Junction 14 Service Station
Repairs begin at 9am and aren't scheduled for completion until 3pm.
Newbridge headquartered Bord Na Mona has officially ended all of its peat harvesting operations in Ireland.
However, the company will continue to make peat briquettes until 2024 at its factory in Birr, Co. Offaly.
Dublin Bus timetables are to be reduced from next Monday.
It serves Dublin, but also Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth & Ballymore Eustace.
The change is due to a lack of demand for services during Covid-19 restrictions.
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