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Northern Ireland’s Health Minister Robin Swann has paid tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore.
He took a moment during his weekly media update at Stormont on the coronavirus pandemic to remember the military veteran and his family.
“He became the epitome of all that is good and noble about how we have come together in a common cause of defeating Covid and supporting our health service and our health workers,” he said.
Mr. Swann said coronavirus transmission rates here are still too high, but hailed the progress of Northern Ireland’s vaccination programme as 271,826 doses had been administered.
“That’s an increase of over 13,500 in the last 24 hours, one of our highest numbers of vaccines administered over a single day,” he said.
Mr Swann said a “significant” new consignment of the AstraZeneca jab had arrived in Northern Ireland and is currently being delivered to GP surgeries.
“That will allow us to continue the acceleration of our vaccination programme,” he said.
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