“To be blunt, if a foreign country had our figures, we would be imposing quarantine on anyone returning from us.”
“You have seen limited lockdowns in other parts of the UK and the Republic. We haven’t had to do that thus far, we may have to do that again tomorrow,” she said.Michelle O’Neill, the deputy first minister, said she believed it was “inevitable” that Northern Ireland would be “moving very quickly to local lockdowns that’s going to be required in order to protect people”.
There were no further coronavirus-related fatalities reported on Wednesday, leaving the department’s total at 567. Compared to the rest of the British Isles, he said, the number of cases in Northern Ireland was “substantially greater . . . our position is worse than England, Scotland, Wales or the Republic of Ireland at present”.
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