On what she hopes to get from the Covid Inquiry, Lauren said she wanted to ensure her uncle's life and death lead to legislative change, particularly in Northern Ireland but also across the rest of the UK. "Hopefully other families in our position - well, hopefully other families won't have to be in our position," she said.

"Watching Covid patients say goodbye to their families via a Zoom call was difficult and extremely emotional." Dr George Gardiner was an intensive care consultant at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and treated the most critically ill in the pandemic.

Legislation to ensure people are never restricted from visiting dying loved ones is needed, campaigners have said ahead of the first UK Covid-19 Inquiry sitting in Belfast. The UK-wide inquiry’s hearings in Belfast begin on Tuesday and will run for three weeks and are designed to provide an opportunity to look in “depth” at the decisions taken in Northern Ireland.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has admitted that its widely used Covid vaccine, branded Covishield, can cause rare side effects including blood clots and low platelet count. Covishield was developed by the British-Swedish company in collaboration with Oxford University,

Kate Scott whose husband Jamie was allegedly injured by AstraZeneca's Covid jab welcomed the news and defiantly declared they would not give up as 'we have truth on our side'.