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The HSE says four million euro has been spent on personal protective equipment that isn't suitable for Irish healthcare settings.
The equipment, made up mostly of masks, represents 20 percent of the PPE that has so far arrived in Ireland.
An 82 year old former Defence Forces member who's recovered from Covid 19 says Ireland will win its war against the virus.
Tom Gunn from Co. Tipperary served in the Congo and survived the siege of Jadotville.
Another ship carrying people who've got coronavirus has docked in Florida.
Princess Cruises say seven passengers and five crew members on the Coral Princess had tested positive for Covid-19.
The PSNI has released one of three men arrested after two ATMs were stolen in Dundalk in the early hours of yesterday morning.
The cash machines were taken from two separate banks in the town.
Seven more covid-19 patients have died in the North, bringing the death toll there to 63.
Nothern Ireland's Public Health Agency says 91 people have tested positive for the virus there in the last 24 hours.
In the UK,
The Health Secretary's warned outdoor exercise could be banned if people ignore social distancing rules, as the number of coronavirus deaths continue to rise.
Politicians have criticised protective equipment for frontline staff in Scotland, after a care home worker with suspected Covid-19 died.
Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said access to PPE is a "problem" and has called on the British government to take urgent action.
A driver has been arrested in KIldare.
Naas Roads Policing Unit conducted a road-side drugs test, which tested positive for cannabis.
The care was then impounded as it lack tax, insurance and an NCT.
Garda say "proceedings are to follow"
Three people have been arrested following two stabbings and a shooting in Liverpool, in the space of 20 minutes.
An 18-year-old man's in a critical condition after being slashed in the head and chest in Toxteth last night.
The HSE says 20 per cent of personal protective equipment that's arrived in Ireland so far is not suitable for general healthcare use.
Millions of euro worth of PPE has already been flown here from China for use by medical staff.
The HSE says 4,500 people will be tested every day from next week as part of efforts to stop the spread of Covid 19.
That's up from the average this week of 1,500.
Some testing centres haven't been operating at full capacity this week.
Three people have been arrested and 140 thousand euro worth of suspected cocaine seized in Dublin.
It follows a Garda operation in Tallaght last night targetting serious and organised crime.
The drugs were found after two cars were stopped on the N81.
Kildare Gardai have issued a statement, reminding "the public to continue to comply with HSE and Government guidelines on essential travel, exercise".
More than 670 people have died in Spain since yesterday after testing positive for coronavirus.
It brings the total number of deaths in the country to almost 12-and-a-half thousand.
The number of confirmed cases of covid-19 there has now risen to more than 130-thousand
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