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Michelle O'Neill calls for more testing to be carried out in Northern Ireland

Rebecca Noonan
Rebecca Noonan

07:20 1 Apr 2020


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The deputy first minister is calling for Northern Ireland to carry out significantly more tests on Covid-19.

There were 53 more cases in the North yesterday, including six deaths.

Yesterday, political leaders agreed to co-operate more across the island of Ireland to tackle the spread of coronavirus.

Deputy first minister Michelle O'Neill says the North needs to ramp up its efforts on the issue.

"I think we should be doing more testing.

"I think we should get to that point a lot quicker.

"We don't have enough PPE and we need to be doing a lot more in terms of obtaining PPE.

"I have an obligation to keep calling that out, so that's not about undermining anybody.

"I subscribe to the World Health Organisation's approach - that's the approach that I believe we should be following.

"And their evidence says we should be doing a lot more testing."


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