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The Department of Health has confirmed changes to visiting arrangements for all care settings from Monday 1 March. The four UK Chief Medical Officers have recommended that the Regional Alert Level should move back from Level...
Enjoy the weekend but keep yourselves and others safe. That’s the message to the public from Health Minister Robin Swann. The Minister said: “The fight against Covid-19 is moving in the right direction, thanks to efforts of...
The drive to administer first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine across all of Northern Ireland’s care homes has been completed, Health Minister Robin Swann has confirmed. Trust vaccination teams have been visiting care homes since...
The Ulster Unionist Party Leader Steve Aiken OBE MLA has responded to the latest attempt by the DUP’s Sammy Wilson to undermine the Health Minister and the Chief Medical Officer. Steve Aiken said: “Today we have...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s Policing Board representative, Mike Nesbitt MLA, has called for urgent action to resolve a crisis which is developing with regard to Policing numbers, which are already almost 500 below what the...
Responding after the EU-UK meeting of the Joint Committee, Ulster Unionist Leader, Steve Aiken OBE MLA, said: “The fact that there is no positive outcome from the meeting of the Joint Committee demonstrates the depth of...
The Covid-19 vaccination programme has now reached a milestone of over 500, 000 doses delivered to eligible people in Northern Ireland. 478,825 first doses and 31,345 second doses have now been administered. Health Minister Robin Swann welcomed...
Health Minister Robin Swann has announced a number of new initiatives to test people who do not have symptoms for Covid-19. This expanded ‘asymptomatic testing programme’ will substantially increase testing for Covid-19 to the benefit of...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s Justice Spokesperson, Doug Beattie MC MLA, has warned that the failure of the UK Government and the EU to address unionist concerns about the NI Protocol risks permanent and irreversible damage...
East Antrim Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs has expressed concerns that Northern Ireland drivers could be subject to a £50 per year insurance hike if the NI Protocol forces us to diverge from GB insurance...