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Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Trusts have stood up their staff vaccination clinics from the beginning of this week as part of a phased programme. Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said: “All staff working in Health and Social Care will be able to get the vaccination in line with the advice from the […]
An aggressive new strain of Covid-19 reinforces the need for everyone to be vigilant and follow the public health advice, Ministers have said. The First Minister, deputy First Minister and Health Minister today met with the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser to discuss the rapidly unfolding situation following news that tighter restrictions for […]
Latest figures published today by NISRA show that 86 deaths involving Covid-19 occurred in the last week from 5th to 11th December, and the total Covid-19 related deaths figure has now reached 1,594. Of this total, 949 (59.5%) deaths took place in hospital, 530 (33.2%) in care homes, nine (0.6%) in hospices and 106 (6.6%) at […]
Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed the NI Executive’s agreement to introduce a series of Covid-19 restrictions from 00:01 on December 26, 2020. The restrictions will be in place for six weeks, subject to review at four weeks. The Health Minister will be making an oral statement to the Assembly on Monday setting out the evidence that informed […]
The Department of Health today published the “Health Survey (NI): First Results 2019/20” report and accompanying trend tables. The Health Survey (NI) has run annually, on a continuous basis, since 2010/11. The 2019/20 survey included questions relating to general health, mental health and wellbeing, loneliness, smoking, e-cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and obesity. The sample size for […]
The fourth set of results from the NISRA Coronavirus (COVID-19) survey were published today by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency. These results are based on 6,357 interviews with members of the public carried out in the period 21 April to 7 November 2020. Concerns about Coronavirus (COVID-19) In October, more than three quarters […]
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