The Department of Health confirms that today a further sixteen people have sadly lost their lives to Covid-19.

The Department for Communities Covid 19 Food Parcel Service has been hugely successful in getting immediate food and essential supplies to those most in need, with 30,975 boxes having been delivered to the 24 Council distribution centres in the three weeks since the service started.

Northern Ireland Executive ministers and their officials have over the past 24 hours been involved in a number of initiatives and critical decisions relating to the Coronavirus emergency.

Revealing that since lockdown began on 23 March, on average, there has been a reduction in traffic flows of between 60 and 70% compared to this period in previous years, Minister Mallon has urged the public to keep going.

The Executive has today agreed that cemeteries will be allowed to open on a restricted basis.