Setting dates for recovery milestones ‘presents difficulties’, warns Michelle O’Neill

The North's deputy first minister said people would be ‘very disappointed’ if restrictions were not lifted on set dates.

Stormont’s deputy first minister has raised concern about setting milestone dates in Northern Ireland’s coronavirus exit strategy.

Michelle O’Neill said marking recovery phases on a calendar would lead to people focusing on certain dates and would result in disappointment if restrictions were not lifted on those days, due to scientific advice about the virus’s spread.