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The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed a five-step plan for easing Covid-19 restrictions across nine sectors of life and the economy.

Crash victims Owen McMullan and Brigid Wilkinson were remembered as the “life and soul of the party” who “lit up any room” at a joint funeral service in Ballycastle on Tuesday . Mr McMullan (25) and Ms Wilkinson (21) leave behind three young children after they died in a two-vehicle collision on the Moyarget Road near Ballycastle, Co Antrim, at around 4.50pm on Friday. At their funeral at St Patrick’s and St Brigid’s Church in the Co Antrim town, parish priest Fr Brian Daly told mourners so many of the couple’s extended family have been affected by the crash and are “heartbro...

Covid-19 patients in their 30s have been fighting for their lives in Northern Ireland’s Nightingale intensive care unit, a nurse has said. Sister Liz Moore, who works in the recovery ward for Covid-19 patients discharged from ICU, revealed the youngest patient they have cared for was just 34-years-old who had no underlying health conditions. She said the majority of patients who come to the unit after lengthy periods in critical care must relearn basic skills such as swallowing, drinking, walking and talking. She also revealed that some patients deteriorate and must return to intensive care...

Accelerating COVID-19 mutations may make virus immune to vaccines, says De Gascun Extra.ie 31/01/2021 © Provided by Extra.ie Accelerating COVID-19 mutations may be on the way to making the virus immune to treatments and vaccinations, a leading member of NPHET has warned. ‘While they may not be resistant at this point in time I think the concern is that they may be on the way to being resistant,’ Dr Cillian De Gascun told the Irish Mail on Sunday. He warned that the virus has mutated faster and in more diverse ways than expected. © Provided by Extra.ie Accelerating COVID-19 mutation...

Invalid Date, BORIS Johnson foiled an EU plot to snatch Britain’s vaccine supplies after bluntly warning it: “Hands off our jabs.” The PM rekindled the fighting spirit that delivered Brexit by bombarding officials with a seven-hour stream of phone calls. 7 7 Ursula von der Leyen has faced fury over her bid to snatch jabs from BritsCredit: Getty Images - Getty He stormed into action after Brussels tore up a deal — struck only last month — so it could impose border controls on exports to this country. But it was forced into humiliating retreat after a late-night showdown with a fired...