Coronavirus: One year since NI s first Covid-19 death
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Friday marks one year since the first death related to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.
The patient was an elderly man who had an underlying medical condition and was being treated in a hospital in the greater Belfast area.
He was among the 77 people who had tested positive for the virus in the three weeks leading up to 19 March - the first positive case was reported on 27 February.
Since then, more than 2,100 people here have died with the virus and 115,511 have been infected, with many still feeling the effects.
Here, we take a look at the last 12 months of coronavirus in Northern Ireland.
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Care home staff receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at Bradley Manor residential care home in Belfast (Image: Liam McBurney/PA)
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MORE than six times as many people have been vaccinated in Northern Ireland than in the Republic, new figures show. A quarter of the adult population have received their first Covid vaccine north of the border. Just four per cent have been.