Pubs, cafés and restaurants in Northern Ireland will reopen for outdoor service today. Six people from no more than two households will be able to eat and drink outdoors at licensed and unlicenced premises, under the measures announced by the Executive earlier this month.
All "non-essential" retail will also resume today and gyms and swimming pools will also reopen for individual training. This is the next phase of reopening businesses and society after public health restrictions were put in place to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
It comes as the latest figures from Northern Ireland yesterday reported no new deaths and 95 new cases of the virus in the past 24 hours.