A £20m programme designed to support smaller settlements as they recover from the impact of the pandemic and to address regeneration needs, was today announced.

The quickest way to get your free rapid lateral flow tests is from pharmacies and other local collection sites.

Health Minister Robin Swann has praised the “Herculean efforts” being made to further ramp up the delivery of COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

Two further suspect cases of notifiable avian influenza have been identified in a commercial poultry flock near Markethill in County Armagh and a commercial duck flock in Coagh, County Tyrone.

Health Minister Robin Swann has announced details of a further acceleration of the COVID-19 vaccine booster programme.
New initiatives have been taken in light of the expected surge of Omicron variant cases in Northern Ireland in January.
The number of confirmed Omicron variant cases in NI has now increased to 10.