Greek football players attend 'coronavirus party' – as it happened
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Stormont ministers were locked in late night negotiations on Tuesday amid efforts to agree new coronavirus restrictions for Northern Ireland. But the executive meeting has been adjourned once again with no indications of an imminent breakthrough, PA reports.
There were angry exchanges at the outset of the meeting when the DUP moved to block a proposal from health minister Robin Swann to extend the region's current circuit-break lockdown for two more weeks.
I do not believe that we can continually go into circuit-breakers, lockdowns, call them what you will. You cannot keep turning on and off the economy. When you go back on one occasion there'll be nothing left and people will not have jobs, they will not be able to support their families, they will fall into destitution and poverty.
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