Business chief Simon Hamilton brands ’flimsy’ Covid-19 evidence ‘absolutely shocking’

	Oct 21, 2020

	Good morning It has emerged that Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has had to 'pause' flu jabs due to a shortage of the vaccine. The chair of the British Medical Association’s Northern Ireland general practitioners committee Dr Alan Stout, said the shortage is not being replicated elsewhere in the UK. Read this and all our news coverage at www.newsletter.co.uk Michael Cousins Engagement team Want total access to all of our online content? You can subscribe to our website, newsletter.co.uk for just £1 a month for 3 months - and it couldn't be easier. Signing up will get you faster-loading articles, fewer adverts and access to exclusive content and events when we run them. To learn more, visit our Subscriptions page here.


	Evidence behind NI’s Covid-19 response published - business chief Simon Hamilton brands’flimsy’ evidence ‘absolutely shocking’

	The Department of Health has made public the evidence used to inform its decisions on managing the Covid-19 pandemic.

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