NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

The first sod was turned on the new Pelletstown Irish Rail station today. Jason Clarke Jason Clarke

• The IRFU has postponed next week’s Ireland vs Italy Six Nations match.
• Health Minister Simon Harris ruled out screening for Covid-19 at Irish airports today, but said the country should expect a “very big increase” in suspected cases in the next few weeks.
• The north-west is bracing itself for more flooding with rain, sleet and snow forecast.
• Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are set to hold a one-day policy seminar next week.
• Drew Harris says he has “no regrets” over his comments about the IRA Army Council and Sinn Féin.
• A woman in her 30s was charged with the murder of a man following a fatal stabbing in Dublin yesterday.
• Johnny Ronan re-submitted an application for Docklands apartment blocks following a High Court decision.
• A woman was found guilty of disguising herself as her dead grandmother in order to conceal her murder.
• Taxi company caught tampering with fare meter on one of its vehicles fined €2,000.
• The funeral was held for a Cork schoolgirl killed in a road crash.

INTERNATIONAL

Kate Middleton gets on her marks at the London Stadium in Stratford for a charity event Yui Mok / PA Images Yui Mok / PA Images / PA Images

#WORLDWIDE: The rest of the world has overtaken China in daily cases of Covid-19 as the World Health Organization warned that countries are “simply not ready”. 

#OUTBREAK: Four tourists tested positive for Covid-19 at a quarantined Tenerife hotel.

#IN HOT WATER: Nespresso “has work to do”, according to brand ambassador George Clooney, as a probe was launched into allegations of child labour on coffee farms.

PARTING SHOT

BBC has details today of the Underwater Photographer of the Year awards.

The photos are as good as you might expect.