Health experts are warning 3,000 people could die from coronavirus in Northern Ireland in less than five months.
The North's Department of Health says that's the worst case scenario for the weeks ahead.
The number of confirmed cases in the six counties rose by 103 yesterday - and 689 people now have the virus.
First minister Arlene Foster says the department's new forecast on the number of deaths is 'sobering'.
"Under this scenario the hospital admissions for Covid-19 running at 500 per week, and it's estimated that the peak number of lives lost will be 3,000 over 20 weeks.
"And that is a sobering statistic.
"The death toll would be about 500 short of the lives lost during the Troubles."
