evidence: The Covid-19 death rate in Northern Ireland is more than ten times that of the Republic and one of the highest of any developed country, according to the latest figures from the North's Department of Health. The health department in its daily afternoon bulletin on Tuesday reported 12 more Covid-19 deaths taking the North’s death toll since the start of the pandemic to 2,323. [...] Currently there are 373 people being treated for Covid-19 in Northern Ireland hospitals with 41 in intensive care and 26 of them on ventilators.