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Sophie McLaughlin

Coronavirus NI: No further deaths and 198 new cases recorded by the Department of Health

No further coronavirus related deaths have been reported by the Department of Health.

According to the DoH's latest update, the death toll from coronavirus in Northern Ireland remains at 2,155.

Thursday's dashboard also reports a further 198 positive cases of Covid-19 since yesterday, bringing the total number of positive cases to 125,470 since the start of the pandemic.

They also announced that a total of 1,980,708 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland to date.

Over the past seven days, the Department said 1,178 individuals have tested positive.

There are currently 18 Covid-19 confirmed inpatients in hospital with none in intensive care.

Earlier today, Health Minister Robin Swann published a three-year blueprint for rebuilding cancer care in Northern Ireland.

The recovery plan sets out a series of short and medium-term initiatives to enhance services badly affected by the pandemic.

The Health Minister said: “Similar to countries right across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on health and social care services in Northern Ireland. Despite the best efforts of the HSC system and clinicians to protect the most important services, unfortunately it wasn’t always possible. This recovery plan sets out the immediate steps needed to begin repairing the damage and building better services for the future.

“Restoring and stabilising cancer services has been a particular priority for my Department. Whilst there is still much work to do, good progress has already been made in some areas. We are now providing more breast screening sessions than we were before the pandemic, more CT sessions per week have been commissioned and we are constantly better utilising surgical and diagnostic capacity right across the system.

“It must be recognised, however, that Northern Ireland had significant and entirely unacceptable waiting times and deeply embedded workforce challenges long before the pandemic. Services have increasingly struggled to keep up with growing demand for cancer care."

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