Wednesday December 23, 2020, 1:59 PM
The Department of Health has updated advice for clinically extremely vulnerable people, advising them not to go into their workplace if they are unable to work from home during the upcoming six week lockdown.
They have been advised that it would be safest not to form a Christmas bubble and to avoid going to shops, pharmacies, and hospitality settings unless absolutely necessary.
The Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said this is not a return to shielding: “The new variant of the virus, coupled with the pressure that our HSC services are experiencing, mean that the risks associated with Covid-19 are elevated.
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Latest travel advice for Northern Ireland after Stormont ministers hold overnight talks
The Executive is advising against non-essential travel between Northern Ireland, Britain and the Republic of Ireland
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Stormont ministers held a late-night meeting on Monday as they considered whether a travel ban on Britain should be introduced in response to concerns over a new variant of Covid-19.
We have been around the board in the game of Covid since February. And here we are back at square one.
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On January 4 a short social media post from the World Health Organization went largely unnoticed. A cluster of pneumonia cases - with no deaths - had been reported in Wuhan, in China s Hubei province.
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