NI lockdown restrictions extended until April 1

Up to 3,000 vulnerable children are attending school, a "significant" increase from the first lockdown, a Stormont committee has heard.

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Subscribe              Feb 18, 2021           Good evening, The Stormont Executive has agreed to extend Northern Ireland's lockdown to April 1. However, there has been a move towards getting children back into the classroom. Primary school pupils in P1-P3 will return to school on March 8, while some other pupils will return on March 22. Today's announcement comes after a further six people in Northern Ireland have died as a result of Covid-19.   Valerie Martin, Head of Content. *  With a subscription to the News Letter you can read our online digital edition via our eReader on your desktop or mobile device. A Digital+ subscription will give you unlimited access to our website where you'll see 70% fewer ads. You can also access the interactive puzzles section along with the digital edition. Subscriptions start from £1 a month.            Up to 3,000 vulnerable pupils in school in NI after 'significant' increase           Up to 3,000 vulnerable children are attending school, a "significant" increase from the first lockdown, a Stormont committee has heard.                 NI vaccine roll-out extended to carers   A major extension of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 vaccination programme has been announced.           Bobby Storey: Report finds there was no republican 'takeover' of Roselawn   A report into how Belfast City Council organised the cremation of republican Bobby Storey has said Sinn Féin did not pressurise the council to give his family special treatment.           Education charity Into Film offers free online home-schooling activities   Into Film has created a new homeschooling survival package to help beleaguered families in Northern Ireland get to the end of the current lockdown.           Almost 2 million people haven't worked for 6 months due to Covid   Almost two million people in the UK have not worked for six months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a report has found.           The UK Covid variant could stay in the body longer - and self-isolation times may need to increase as a result   A small study has suggested that the so-called 'UK variant' of coronavirus may take longer for the immune system to clear.           Extending Covid symptoms list could detect third more cases - the other signs to look for   Extending the list of symptoms that can be used to allow a Covid-19 test could help to detect around a third more cases, a study has found.           Campaigners want long Covid compensation scheme for frontline workers - here's why   The Government is being urged to recognise long Covid as an occupational disease and set up a compensation scheme for frontline workers suffering from the condition.           Governor among six staff at young offenders' centre to test positive for Covid   The governor of a young offenders' centre in Northern Ireland has tested positive for Covid-19.                 View more news

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