No further deaths and 107 positive cases of covid-19 in NI

by Q Radio News

No further coronavirus related deaths have been recorded in Northern Ireland in the past 24 hours, according to the Department of Health. 

The department's death toll therefore remains at 2,155. 

However, 107 positive cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the past 24 hours. 

The department's dashboard will be updated fully again on Monday including the latest figures on hospital and ICU admissions. 

NI #COVID19 data:

📊107 positive cases and no deaths have been reported in past 24 hours.
💉1, 862,979 vaccines administered in total.

The dashboard will be updated on Monday 14 June.

Vaccines➡️https://t.co/Yfa0hHVmRL pic.twitter.com/jMTaozEcbZ

— Department of Health (@healthdpt) June 12, 2021

To date, 1,862,979 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.

The latest figures in Northern Ireland comes as Boris Johnson admits he is less optimistic about the easing of lockdown restrictions in England, as he was last month and he has hinted he may delay the 21 June reopening.

The prime minister, speaking to Sky News at the G7 summit in Cornwall, said he was prepared to be "cautious" over the fourth and final stage in his roadmap for lifting COVID measures.

Although Mr Johnson previously hoped to remove all remaining legal restrictions on social contact on 21 June, it has been suggested he could now delay step four of his roadmap by as much as a month.

The prime minister said it was "clear" the Delta variant of COVID, first discovered in India, was "more transmissible" with coronavirus cases and the number of people in hospital increasing in the UK.

"Now we don't know to what extent that exactly is going to feed through into extra mortality but, clearly it's a matter of serious, serious concern," he told Sky News political editor Beth Rigby at the G7 summit venue in Carbis Bay.