Coronavirus Northern Ireland: When will lockdown end and life return to normal
It is almost one year since Northern Ireland entered its first lockdown and the question on everyone s lips is, when will it end?
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With at least another month of lockdown restrictions ahead after numerous extensions, a return to some kind of normality still seems a long way off.
The rainy days have been adding to the gloomy feeling around this lockdown but better days are hopefully just around the corner.
This evening First Minister Arlene Foster said the current lockdown has made a major difference in efforts to suppress the virus.
Five key points from Health Minister Robin Swann s latest coronavirus update
The NI Executive will meet on Thursday to review the situation for schools
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All travellers arriving into Northern Ireland will now have to isolate for ten days after travel corridors were scrapped due to fears of new strains of Covid-19.
Key points from Health Minister Robin Swann s latest coronavirus update
The Health Minister says challenging decisions may have to be made by early February
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The Health Minister says the situation in our hospitals is too precious to ease restrictions too early or too widely .
Covid-19: Belfast doctor warns oxygen supplies under extreme pressure
By Marie-Louise Connolly & Lesley Anne McKeown
BBC News NI
media captionOxygen supplies under extreme pressure
A respiratory doctor at Belfast s Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under extreme pressure .
Dr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had. That was never a thing in previous January flu problems, he told the BBC.