Northern Ireland's power-sharing Executive will this morning continue discussions to try to agree a policy on measures to combat the Covid-19 virus.
It is the fourth day in the row it has met on the issue and unless the ministers decide otherwise, restrictions in place since last month will end at midnight.
A third executive meeting in three days broke up last night without consensus emerging. Compared to south of the border, Northern Ireland continues to have a pattern of significantly higher new daily Covid-19 infections and patients hospitalised with the virus.
Last month, earlier than the Government in Dublin, Stormont imposed a range of restrictions to halt the rise of the pandemic.