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Coronavirus: NI Executive to review lockdown laws
May 28, 2020
The Stormont executive is to meet later for its latest review of Northern Ireland's Covid-19 lockdown regulations.
The laws initially took effect on 28 March, but must be re-assessed every three weeks.
Ministers have already moved to slowly ease some restrictions , by implementing parts of a five-step recovery plan.
But they are not thought to be considering announcing significant changes after Thursday's meeting.
This week has seen a reduction in the number of deaths; on Tuesday, for the first time in 10 weeks, the health department said it had recorded no coronavirus-related deaths over the previous 24 hours.
But while the figures are encouraging, Stormont sources say it is still too early to move to the next stage of the Pathway to Recovery, says BBC News NI political correspondent Stephen Walker.
Pathway, but no timetable
Ministers will receive the latest scientific advice from Northern Ireland's Chief Medical and Chief Scientific Officers, and look at the impact the relaxing of some lockdown measures has had on the R-number, or reproduction value - the average number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to.
Earlier in May, the Stormont executive published its five-phase Pathway to Recovery but, unlike restriction-easing plans laid out in England and the Republic of Ireland, this did not include a firm timetable.
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