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20 June – Northern Ireland records another day without any COVID related deaths. [ 224] 22 June – Around 9,000 students at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University are to receive an additional payment of £495 from the Stormont Executive for disruption to their education caused by the COVID crisis.
23 April – Northern Ireland records a day without any COVID-related deaths. [57] 24 April – No COVID deaths are recorded in Northern Ireland for a second consecutive day. [58] 28 April – Families of care home residents want to know why hospital patients were discharged to homes without being tested for COVID-19.
August 2020. 2 August – Figures released by the Health and Safety Executive show that 336 complaints were made about companies regarding breaches of COVID-19 regulations between 5 May to 17 July. [65] 5 August – The number of COVID-19 cases in Northern Ireland passes 6,000 after ten new cases bring the total to 6,006.
The Northern Ireland Protocol of the Brexit withdrawal agreement commits the UK and the EU to maintaining an open border in Ireland, so that (in many respects) the de facto frontier is the Irish Sea border between the two islands. This requires the continued application of the Common Travel Area as well as free trade of goods (including ...
On 16 October, Northern Ireland went into an eight-week lockdown, although schools remained open, and some restrictions were eased for one week. The lockdown was mostly lifted on 11 December. Following a brief easing of restrictions at Christmas, another lockdown was imposed on 26 December, including schools, as the positivity rate rose sharply.
Politics of Northern Ireland. Since 1998, Northern Ireland has devolved government within the United Kingdom. The government and Parliament of the United Kingdom are responsible for reserved and excepted matters. Reserved matters are a list of policy areas (such as civil aviation, units of measurement, and human genetics), which the Westminster ...
It is designed to address the problem of the movement of goods between the European Single Market and the United Kingdom in the current Northern Ireland Protocol. [109] [110] The agreement relates to goods crossing the Irish Sea from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. [111]
A Northern Ireland Executive was created following the signing of the Sunningdale Agreement in 1974, while the current Northern Ireland Executive under the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, was created in the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, and has intermittently been in existence from 1999 to the present.