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Lauren Harte

'At some stage we have to move beyond Covid', says NI GP after testing scrapped in England

A Co Tyrone-based GP has said the time has come to learn to live with Covid-19.

Dr Brendan O’Hare was speaking after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday that those who test positive for coronavirus will no longer be legally required to isolate from Thursday, and free universal testing will end on April 1 in England.

There are concerns that Mr Johnson could withdraw funding for free lateral flow tests in Northern Ireland after scrapping them in England.

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