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It also comes as the country is dealing with a rising cost of living crisis amid a weakened yen.

The US jobs market weakened further in August, raising new fears about the health of the world's largest economy.

With such vaccines, called whole-virus vaccines, a person’s immune system is presented with the whole virus, often in weakened or inactivated form.

Unionist politicians remain opposed to it and have long argued that the arrangements leave Northern Ireland's constitutional position within the UK weakened.

Dr Monaghan said doctors were worried about the resurgence of the virus, with babies and young children, pregnant women, and those with a weakened immune system at increased risk.