Over-40s to be offered Covid booster jab as vaccination programme extended

Nov 15, 2021

Michael Cousins

Acting Managing Editor

Good morning

In the news today:

* An ambulance divert from Craigavon Hospital, for all but life-threatening emergencies, and which was stood down last night, has now resumed.

* The Covid-19 vaccine booster programme is to be extended to include healthy 40 to 49-year-olds, health officials have announced.

* Woman and four men arrested in probe into North Antrim UDA.

* Following a year when Remembrance services were stripped back to a bare minimum because of Covid restrictions, yesterday’s events throughout the Province demonstrated another step on the road to normality.

* With only one month to go, Lyons urges ‘spend it now, spend it all and spend it local’!

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	Over-40s to be offered Covid booster jab as vaccination programme extended

	The Covid-19 vaccine booster programme is to be extended to include healthy 40 to 49-year-olds, health officials have said.

Woman and four men arrested in probe into North Antrim UDA

Officers from the Paramilitary Crime Task Force investigating a range of human rights abuses and violent criminal activity linked to the North Antrim UDA have arrested a woman, aged 52-years, and four men, aged 38-years, 43-years, 47-years and 50-years in the Ballymoney, Limavady and Coleraine areas on suspicion of a number of offences.

Easing of restrictions helps with the act of remembering

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An ambulance divert from Craigavon Hospital for all but life-threatening emergencies resumes this morning

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