Covid-19 press conference – 3 April 2020

The First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill with Executive Ministers Robin Swann (Health) and Conor Murphy (Finance) provide an update on actions being taken in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

DAERA Minister urges halt to prescribed fires to aid stretched emergency services

DAERA Minister Edwin Poots has urged farmers and land managers to halt all prescribed burning in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in a bid to reduce additional pressures on Northern Ireland’s emergency services.

City hospital to be Northern Ireland’s first Nightingale hospital

The Department of Health will be designating Belfast City Hospital’s tower block as Northern Ireland’s first Nightingale Hospital – for the anticipated surge of Covid-19 patients requiring intensive care in the weeks ahead.

Slurry and fertiliser applications for late spring

Advice from CAFRE Dairying advisers

Minister highlights key findings of NI Covid-19 modelling

The crucial importance of social distancing in NI has been graphically brought home by local modelling data on Covid-19.