He added that the pace of the vaccination programme would “accelerate” and he would be announcing the next stage of the rollout early next week. Northern Ireland plans to complete the vaccination programme by the early summer. A dashboard providing daily data on the progress of the vaccination programme in the North was launched by the department on Wednesday. Mr Swann provided details of the vaccinations to date on a day when eight more Covid-19 deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland. Mr Swann also announced the start of the expansion of testing of people in workplaces who were not displaying coronavirus symptoms.

Source: The Irish Times March 10, 2021 15:11 UTC