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The COVID-19 pandemic reached Northern Ireland in February 2020. At the start of the first official lockdown, the Department of Health reported 3,445 deaths overall among people who had recently tested positive. [1]
Colm Gildernew, chair of Stormont's health committee, says there are "areas of grave concern" within Northern Ireland's COVID-19 testing system. [120] It is announced that David Cook, who in 1978 became the first non-unionist Lord Mayor of Belfast in more than a century, has died after being diagnosed with COVID-19. [121]
24 March – Northern Ireland's Health Minister, Robin Swann, confirms that most people in Northern Ireland will no longer be eligible for free COVID testing from 22 April, although lateral flow tests will continue to be free for people displaying symptoms. Swann also confirms that routine contract tracing is to be phased out in Northern ...
Northern Ireland will introduce "sweeping new powers" to combat the spread of coronavirus from 2300 GMT on Saturday, with many restrictions on businesses tougher than the rest of the United Kingdom.
Sue Gray, the ex-civil servant turned chief of staff for Sir Keir Starmer, has told the Covid-19 inquiry that Stormont officials were more reactive than proactive at the outset of the pandemic.
The second stage of the UK Covid-19 inquiry is examining key decisions made by the UK Government between January 2020 and February 2022. NI Covid victim died in hospital on same day as Downing St ...
6 May – Seven cases of the Indian Variant of COVID-19 are discovered in Northern Ireland. [178] 7 May – A UK-wide decision to offer adults under 40 an alternative to the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine could delay Northern Ireland's vaccination programme, but people are being urged to continue coming forward.
Northern Ireland's Economy Minister, Conor Murphy, tells the COVID-19 Inquiry he will not be appearing before the hearing "on medical advice". [58] 8 May – AstraZeneca announces the withdrawal of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after three billion doses were manufactured and administered since its development in 2020. AstraZeneca ...