Number of Covid-19 hospital patients will double within days – NI health chiefs

A woman carries a bag on a quiet street in Belfast city centre (Brian Lawless/PA)

Northern Ireland’s health chiefs have warned that the number of people with Covid-19 in hospital will double by the third week of January compared to the current figures.

The prediction was made in a joint statement by the chief executives of the region’s six health and social care trusts on Sunday.