Mayor issues plea to stay at home as new COVID regulations to be enforced
Mayor of Derry and Strabane Brian Tierney has pleaded with local people to only leave home for essential reasons following the latest spike in Covid 19 cases in the Council area.
Thursday, 7th January 2021, 12:59 pm
Mayor Tierney warned that there is a genuine risk of the health service being overwhelmed if the public don’t adhere to the now legally enforceable guidance issued by the NI Executive this week.
From midnight on Thursday people across the north have been warned they should only leave home for medical or food needs, exercise and work that cannot be done from home.
The decision was taken by leaders of the Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian and Methodist congregations.
They met Stormont’s chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride and chief scientific adviser Professor Ian Young on Thursday to discuss the pandemic.
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A Church of Ireland statement said: “In light of the current serious and worsening situation and in line with clear public health guidance that people should stay at home, we have decided that all public gatherings for worship and all other in-person church activities should cease for our particular denomination, until Saturday, 6th February 2021, subject to review in late January, with the exception of weddings, funerals, arrangements for recording and/or
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