A further nine patients who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 in Northern Ireland have died, bringing the total number of deaths there to 347.
Northern Ireland health minister Robin Swann said the spread of Covid-19 so far across the community there "has not been as serious as we first feared".
However, giving a statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee on the Covid-19 Response, Mr Swann warned against complacency. "That does not mean the warnings were misplaced, it means the warnings were taken seriously and people stayed at home," he said. "Northern Ireland remains on a knife edge." The deaths come as justice minister Naomi Long announced that five prison officers in Northern Ireland have tested positive for the virus.