Cafes, coffee shops, and close contact services such as hairdressers will reopen in Northern Ireland today before closing again next Friday for two weeks in a bid to stop the health service from being overwhelmed.
All non-essential retail, pubs and restaurants will shut on 27 November. Takeaway hospitality will be allowed but leisure and entertainment venues will also be closed, but schools will stay open.
The measures were taken as top doctors warned hospitals could otherwise be overwhelmed. Stormont First Minister Arlene Foster said yesterday: "The Executive has been presented ...
with the sobering prospect of our hospitals becoming overwhelmed within weeks. "It is clear that a tough, carefully timed, intervention is required to give us