Summary

  • More than a third of estimated grades allocated by teachers to NI's A-level and AS level students were lowered in the final results

  • About 28,000 pupils across Northern Ireland received their results this morning

  • This year's results have been estimated after exams were cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Boris Johnson met Stormont leaders to discuss the Covid-19 response

  • Twenty-nine new cases of coronavirus were reported in NI on Wednesday

  • The Department of Health in NI reported no deaths, its total number of coronavirus-related deaths remains 557

  • The UK death toll by more than 5,000, to 41,329 following a review of how deaths from coronavirus are counted

Live Reporting

  1. Good morning and welcome

    Hello and welcome to our live page this Thursday morning.

    Stay with us throughout the day as we bring you updates on the coronavirus situation in Northern Ireland