Today we've had the very welcome news that the roll-out for the coronavirus vaccine is underway in Northern Ireland. Joanna Sloan, 28, a sister in charge of Covid vaccination for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust received the vaccine just after 8am this morning.
It also emerged that the first ever recipient of the vaccine in the world - outside trial conditions - was a 90-year-old woman from Enniskillen. Margaret Keenan received the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid marking the start of the UK's mass vaccination programme. Matron May Parsons administered Ms Keenan's vaccine at at 06.30 GMT at University Hospital, Coventry.
Michelle O'Neill has said she cannot rule out imposing new restrictions before end of December. She revealed Covid-19 regulations in Northern Ireland are now under daily review. "We have to keep everything under review, everything must be on the table," the deputy First Minister.
From a more positive outlook Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that he expects Covid restrictions can start to be lifted from spring next year and has "great hopes" for a more normal summer. He said, "We've said that we think that, from the spring, things can start getting back to normal, and, because we've been able to get this vaccination programme going sooner than anywhere else in the world, we'll be able to bring that date forward a bit.
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The deputy First Minister, Michelle O'Neill, has revealed Covid-19 regulations in Northern Ireland are now under daily review by the Executive and explained she cannot rule imposing additional restrictions before the end of December.
Health Minister Robin Swann has said he has a duty to bring a message of "realism" after political colleagues described his weekly press conferences as a "podium of doom".
The Northern Ireland Executive is not ruling out imposing lockdown restrictions in the days beetween Christmas and New Year, sources close to the Executive have confirmed.
The first person to receive the vaccine in Northern Ireland was a nurse who will play a key role in the vaccination programme at the country's main hospital.
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