The Department of Health today published the next in the series of weekly results from its COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS).

The Annual Animal Inventories will be completed entirely online this year due to Covid-19, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has announced.

Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots has met with AgriSearch to discuss its new strategy, in particular plans to develop a new ‘Beacon’ network of farms, and the potential for future collaboration with DAERA.

Ministers have outlined a package of measures agreed by the Executive that will come into effect at the end of the two week circuit breaker.

The Health Minister has confirmed that the first batch of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has arrived into Northern Ireland.