All non-essential retail has closed in Northern Eire after it entered a six-week lockdown on Saturday morning.
The primary week of the measures are the hardest but, with a type of curfew in operation from 8pm, retailers closed from that point and all indoor and out of doors gatherings prohibited till 6am.
Non-essential retail will likely be closed all through the following six weeks, as will shut contact companies.
Hospitality shops will likely be restricted to takeaway companies.
Organised sport will likely be banned, with elite athletes included within the prohibition for the primary week.
Covid-19 an infection charges stay excessive, with a extra transmissible pressure first found in southern England and London lately detected in Northern Eire.
Stormont’s chief scientific adviser has mentioned Northern Eire would have witnessed 1000’s of Covid-19 deaths if no motion had been taken to suppress coronavirus.
Prof Ian Younger has mentioned the already over-capacity well being service would have been fully swamped in January.
He warned the variety of Covid-19 inpatients would have soared to between 3,000 and 4,000 by the top of the month if no motion had been taken.
Just lately, queues of ambulances have been witnessed at accident and emergency departments throughout Northern Eire as sufferers have been handled in automobile parks on account of an absence of capability inside hospitals.
At one level, 17 ambulances containing sufferers have been lined up exterior the emergency division at Antrim Space Hospital. – PA