No travel ban recommendation from NI Health Minister Robin Swann at crunch Executive meeting

The Minister has recommended issuing guidance advising against non-essential travel between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, Press Association report.

The minister has also advised that anyone arriving into the region self-isolate for ten days.

Mr Swann is also understood to have called for further preparatory work to examine legal issues around the potential of introducing a formal travel ban.

It is understood, meanwhile, that Sinn Fein Finance Minister Conor Murphy has circulated to all executive ministers a written response to Mr Swann’s paper expressing “dismay and astonishment” that he is not moving immediately to instigate a ban on travel between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.

Mr Murphy called on Mr Swann to reconsider the position he has set out in his paper.