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Covid-19: Cargo plane leaves NI with medical aid for India By Sara Neill media captionThe Antonov An-124 landed at Belfast International Aiport on Thursday night A cargo plane carrying oxygen generators from Northern Ireland to India left Belfast International Airport on Friday afternoon. India's official death toll has surpassed 200,000 but experts believe the actual number may be higher. The shipment, expected to arrive in Delhi over the weekend, also contains 1,000 ventilators from across the UK. The three generators, built in Northern Ireland, are capable of producing 500 litres of oxyge...

In Northern Ireland, 614,629 first doses have been administered – approximately 42pc of the adult population. Comparably, 396,089 first doses of the vaccine have been issued in Ireland – just over 11pc of the adult population. Northern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann said on Tuesday he expected the rate of inoculation to accelerate following the arrival of a “significant” delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Mr Swann said it would be the “largest delivery of a single vaccine that we’ve ever received in Northern Ireland... we’ll really see an escalation of our vaccine progra...

Buckingham Palace announced in January the 94-year-old head of state and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, had been inoculated.

THE Queen has said her Covid-19 jab “didn’t hurt at all” as she encouraged those hesitant about vaccination to “think about other people…