NI health boss denies test and trace system as ‘useful as chocolate fireguard’

Sinn Fein’s Pat Sheehan (David Young/PA)

The boss of the Public Health Agency (PHA) has refuted an Assembly member’s claim that Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 test and trace system is “as useful as a chocolate fireguard”.

The assertion from Sinn Féin’s Pat Sheehan provoked an angry response from fellow members of the Assembly’s health committee with calls for the West Belfast representative to apologise.