A week is a long time in pandemics.

Covid-19 will usher in a new era where work from home is an increasing part of people’s regular schedule.

Even the world’s top infectious-disease specialists still aren’t sure how lethal a threat the coronavirus presents.

The coronavirus epidemic could rob passenger airlines of up to $113bn (€100bn) in revenues this year, an industry body warned.

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).

The National Public Health Emergency Team is to immediately ramp up warning campaigns about the spread of coronavirus at ports, airports, schools, and public offices.

The country is now confronting its dependence on exports to China and the destructive power of global warming, but all Western nations will shortly have to reckon with both, says Carl Bildt

“You can cope with sporadic cases but if there is a large number we will struggle to cope and probably won't,” said Dr Rory Dwyer, clinical lead of the Irish National Intensive Care Unit Audit.

The family members have tested negative for the coronavirus.

The sight of a masked Chinese president, Xi Jinping, greeting workers in Beijing’s Chaoyang district yesterday as they returned to work after the lunar new year holiday, his first public appearance in weeks, was designed to inspire confidence

Employees at the Dublin offices of Indeed have been told to work from home this week amid concerns of coronavirus.

Greg O’Shea says his commitment to his Irish sevens team mates was always going to override “two weeks on television” as the Love Island winner looks ahead to potential Olympic qualification.

The price of oil fell sharply but global stock markets were mixed as investors scrambled to assess the potential fallout to world trade and tourism should the cases of coronavirus increase over the weekend.

Global shares and the price of oil dropped amid growing concern that a virus spreading from China could curb global growth.

Ireland has 17 billionaires, a number Oxfam describes as "disproportionately high" - behind only Hong Kong, Cyprus, Switzerland and Singapore in terms of the number of billionaires relative to the population.

As 2019 ends, there is relief that political interference did not overly damage trade, but whereas we have escaped the bullet this time, we may not be so lucky in the new year.

Overseas hotels often used by the charity included the 4-star Fitzpatrick Hotel in New York, The Royal Automobile Club in London, The Westin in Cleveland and the 5-star Shangri-La and Grand Hyatt in Singapore.

Ken Livingstone was the mayor when the levy was introduced there in 2003, to reduce the number of cars in the area.

UK-based bus and rail provider Go-Ahead has said it will start a second bus contract in Ireland for commuter towns outside Dublin next week.

The World’s Big Sleep Out, at Trinity College on December 7, will be held in solidarity with people who live on the streets and to raise awareness, Dame Louise Casey tells Helen O’Callaghan

An engineering expert who helped advise the Italian government on flood defences in Venice insists that the river Lee dams can protect Cork from river flooding without the need for "high walls".

The Hong Kong listed company has a presence in China, Ireland, Singapore and the US.

Global e-commerce company eShopWorld has appointed Conor O’Kane as its new chief information officer, with David Manifold joining as chief financial officer.

Both Laura's photo and video have proved so popular, media outlets from Singapore to Russia have used it in features.

Ireland legend Jamie Heaslip was never one to take a backward step during an illustrious playing career — and it’s an approach he continues to take as he creates a life outside rugby

Here is a selection of people who have begun interesting new roles with companies based in Ireland.

Britain’s financial services industry, the country’s biggest tax earner, risks being cut adrift from its main export market — the EU — after Brexit.

The Budget was dominated by Brexit, which is exactly where it should be, given that that we are now facing down the barrel of a gun.

The biggest story in sport this week was not really a story about sport. At least, not on the surface.

It’s time to call a truce on Rugby Country’s culture war

Persistently low interest rates in the eurozone have helped place some property markets in European cities into the overvalued territory for the first time, putting their home markets into danger, UBS has said.

Australia has given clearance for Singapore Airlines’s SilkAir to store its six Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the country, as the global grounding of the jet continues following two deadly crashes within the past 12 months.

Here is a selection of people who have recently been appointed to interesting new roles.

Though Robert Mugabe’s successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, described his mentor, who has died aged 95 in Singapore, as “an icon of liberation” Mugabe was an African freedom fighter turned kleptocratic despot straight from central casting — maybe central casting at London’s Ealing Studios where tales of empire were gilded and offered as history rather than entertainment.