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Jane Corscadden

Covid NI: Two further deaths and over 1,000 positive cases recorded in 24 hours

Two further coronavirus related deaths have been recorded in Northern Ireland on Sunday.

The death toll from the Department of Health now stands at 2,869.

A further 1,405 positive cases of the virus have also been detected in NI in the past 24 hours.

All data on the Department of Health's dashboard is due to be updated on Monday, November 29.

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Meanwhile, the exemption of the common travel area from new Covid-19 restrictions against the Omicron variant has been welcomed.

From Tuesday morning, new tougher measures including PCR testing will be introduced for arrivals to the UK.

All contacts with a suspected case of Omicron will have to isolate for 10 days, regardless of their vaccination status, amid concerns existing jabs will be less effective against the strain that is believed to spread rapidly.

However, this will not apply to the common travel area (CTA), which covers Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands.

It comes as ten countries in Africa have been added to Northern Ireland's travel red list in the past week.

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