Up to 3,000 people in Northern Ireland could die from coronavirus in the space of 20 weeks.
That’s the warning issued by the North’s Department of Health.
There are now 689 confirmed cases of the virus in the six counties, after 103 new cases and two deaths were recorded yesterday.
First Minister Arlene Foster says the department’s ‘worst case’ prediction makes grim reading:
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