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There have been another 17 Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health reported. Thirteen of those deaths occurred in the 24 hours up to 10am on Saturday and four happened previously. The death toll has risen to 1,831. Another 455 new cases have been identified in testing. There have been 3,841 positive cases in the past week, down from 5,329 in the previous seven days. Hospital occupancy is at 91% with 2,773 people in beds. A total of 69 patients with Covid-19 are in intensive care - 56 of those are ventilated. And 127 care homes are dealing with an outbreak of the ...

How Ursula von der Leyen’s vaccine supply assault backfired spectacularly A week that began with Brussels determined to force AstraZeneca to its knees ended with the European Union humiliated 30 January 2021 • 11:13pm Ursula von der Leyen during her speech to the World Economic Forum Credit: Shutterstock It was Friday evening, around 9.20pm, and on the line was the British Prime Minister. Boris Johnson was demanding to know why the EU had invoked Article 19 of the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol, effectively blocking imports of Covid vaccines through the Irish Republic to the UK. At 9.50...

EU officials attempted to reimpose controls on the border Brussels has been forced into a humiliating U-turn over attempts to trigger a clause in the Brexit deal that would have imposed border controls in Northern Ireland. The European commission had planned to create a “vaccine border” which could have seen checks at the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland to prevent shipments entering the UK. The move was seen as a bid to prevent it becoming a backdoor for jabs to be sent to the UK mainland. It said the actions were “justified” to avert a problem of supplies reaching the EU.

BBC Newsnight host Faisal Islam savaged the EU's vaccine chaos as a 'mess and total calamity' during a furious live TV row with the Spanish Foreign Minister.

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