Tom Black

Numbers awaiting a first outpatient appointment five times higher than in early 2017

Tax receipts for first two months of the year were €800m less than same period in 2020

Total of 823 people receiving treatment in North’s hospitals with 65 in intensive care

As if a novel and mutating virus was not threat enough, old political unsayables are part of the public health crisis in Northern Ireland

Health service is facing ‘nightmare’ in January - British Medical Association NI chairman

Archbishop of Armagh seeks urgent clarification on whether churches may open for individual visits and private prayer

Business leaders seek clarity, saying politicians putting them in ‘impossible position’

North’s health department reports 12 more deaths and 516 new cases of Covid-19

Scheduled ending of lockdown on Friday week would be an ‘act of careless vandalism’

Ending lockdown on Friday week would be ‘act of careless vandalism’, says Dr Tom Black

Doctor concerned that service in North could be ‘overwhelmed’ in coming weeks

‘Complacency set in, people thought they had the Covid pandemic beaten, and they socialised’

Belfast City Council, Ballymena and BT43, BT28 and BT29 postcode regions affected

Move should help hospitality sector, says Foster, as no new Covid-19 deaths reported

‘The people on the front line need them more than I do’

Chief medical officer warns rate of pandemic related fatalities will rise in the weeks ahead