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SDLP minister Nichola Mallon has urged colleagues to call on the UK Government to ask the EU for the transition period to be extended.

At the First Minister’s daily briefing earlier on Monday, it was announced police issued 797 disperals on Saturday alone.

The Health Secretary admitted there was ‘more capacity than we need’ after some staff said they had worked for days with no cases.

Boris Johnson said on May 10 he was establishing a new Joint Biosecurity Centre to run the coronavirus alert system.

The Stormont executive has also set a provisional date of July 20 for the reopening of hotels.

James Weld said the Lulworth Estate had no means of preventing people from travelling to the site, or accessing the beaches.

He said the ‘rate of incidence of disease is now back down to the levels that it was before we introduced the shielding policy’.

At least 191 frontline health and care workers have died with Covid-19.

Some contact tracers have said they have no work to do while others have complained about poor technology.

Keira Knightley, Sir Ringo Starr and Joe Lycett are among the stars who have designed thank you badges.

People in shielding categories have been allowed to leave their houses for walks for the first time since March.

The firms had used fake endorsements from celebrities in their advertising.

Hastings Hotels is aiming to capture part of the £4 billion usually spent by holidaymakers from the island of Ireland.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken were first to test the new Crew Dragon which made SpaceX the first private company to send humans into orbit.

The numbers to watch for any sign of a spike.

Nassar Hussain, 58, dedicated more than 20 years to the NHS.

New laws and Government guidance have been issued in England.