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Northern Ireland chamber president Ian Henry says the government must now "ramp up support" for the self employed and sole traders.

He says the economic measures announced by the Chancellor on Friday had been welcomed by the business community in NI.

But issues concerning the self employed had not been addressed, he says.

"Northern Ireland’s business base is largely made up sole traders/the self-employed, so it is now vital that ministers now also ramp up support for these people, many of whom have seen their livelihoods vanish in the blink of an eye."

Mr Henry says the self employed "need help similar in scale and scope to that put in place for those businesses with employees."

From 12:00 GMT on Tuesday 24 March, all respiratory ambulance admissions in the Belfast Trust area will be diverted to the Mater Hospital.

The hospital's emergency department will be closed to walk-in admissions from 8am.

Emergency department consultant Dr Eoghan Ferrie explains more in the below video:

An organisation which promotes outdoor recreation says "people need to exercise common sense when selecting where and when to go outdoors".

There were a number of instances at the weekend of people flocking to popular sites, prompting Caro-Lynne Ferris, executive-director of Outdoor Recreation NI, to say "this cannot go on".

Joining more than thirty other activity, tourism, nature, health and rescue groups, she says the public need to behave responsibly.

The statement said, however, that exercise is important in the current climate and that "a balance can be struck".

"A nation in lockdown could lead to enhanced anxiety, depression, social unrest, mental and physical ill health, and social poverty.

"In contrast, carefully managed local exercise, inside or outside, will provide welcome active release for individuals and families feeling trapped."

Causeway Coast and Glens Council has closed its caravan sites along the north coast to try and stop all unnecessary travel.

The council's mayor Sean Bateson says it follows reports of large numbers of people congregating in coastal towns over the weekend.

"So today following guidance from central government, council took the decision to close all council owned caravan sites," he says.

"The guidance is people should be staying in their primary residence, and should not be travelling, only for essential purposes."

The mayor is asking people "to stay at home and not be treating this as a holiday."

University student Oisin McCann, 20, tells Talkback while he has not left his house since St Patrick's Day, he has heard of "lots of house parties" taking place "particularly up in Belfast".

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He says he has also heard of pubs letting people in through back doors.

"I think it's totally irresponsible," he said.

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BBC News NI political reporter

NI deputy first minister Michelle O’Neill was reduced to tears in the assembly chamber while taking questions from MLAs about efforts to tackle Covid-19.

She was answering a question from TUV leader Jim Allister about a constituent of his who has been told her chemotherapy for cancer will stop due to service pressures.

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Ms O’Neill began by responding: “What do you say, what can you say to that person? These are the challenges which we’re going to have to deal with,” before beginning to get upset.

The chamber paused temporarily to give the deputy first minister a reprieve, before she went on to finish her response.

“There aren’t any good answers to those kinds of questions.”

Twenty new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, bringing the total to 148

Chris Donnelly, principal of St John the Baptist Primary School in Belfast, predicts many schools, including his own, will open tomorrow.

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He says having spoken to fellow principals and union members at schools in south and west Belfast that did open on Monday "the number of children actually showing up was significantly lower than that was being projected".

Michael Allen, headmaster of Lisneal College in Londonderry, is asking everyone who visits the school to don personal protective equipment.

Thousands of fast food restaurants are set to close across the UK on Monday.

On Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said restaurants and cafes must close on Friday, but exempted takeaway food and drink.

Among those to shut their doors to customers for both eat-in and takeaway are:

• Nando's has announced it has already closed all of its restaurants, in about 400 locations;
• Sandwich shop Subway is to close its 1,700 franchises from 17:00 GMT;
• McDonald's says it will close all 1,270 of its restaurants from 19:00 GMT;
• Coffee chain Costa will shut its 2,000 shops by the end of Monday.

Retailers have also been affected as the impact of new measures to tackle Covid-19 are rolled out.

• Laura Ashley is to permanently close 70 stores, affecting 721 jobs;
• Primark's 189 UK stores have closed "until further notice"
• Other High Street retailers, such as Timpson, have already announced closures amid the pandemic.

The Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA) is to suspend the testing of Heavy Goods Vehicles (lorries) and trailers, as well as buses for three months from the last test today, "following the latest advice about the spread of the coronavirus".

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All HGV and public service vehicles, except taxis, with an MOT, will be issued with a three-month Temporary Exemption Certificate (TEC).

Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said "these are necessary precautionary measures to protect staff and customers and adhere to public health authority guidelines on social distancing".

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood says a lockdown would be "problematic and enforcement will be very difficult".

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However, he added the government "has to do something".

"Nobody with any sense could have watched the scenes over the weekend and not have been totally appalled."

He added: "I think we have to move to lockdown now because nothing else is working."

Dr Kenneth McKenzie, a social psychologist, tells Talkback a lot of the messaging around social distancing in the UK and other countries relies on people to make common sense decisions.

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"We need to get to a situation where we tell people exactly what we want them to do," he says.

"'Practise social distancing' is open to inference, saying to people 'stay at home and only leave for essential supplies like food and medicine' is much less vague."

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Health Minister Robin Swann says legislation from Westminster would give the devolved administrations the authority to "switch on or switch off" the enforcement of social distancing.

"I would say it will come to the point very, very quickly where we'll have to," he adds.

"There's no-one out there who's going to be immune to this, there's no-one out there who does not have a part to play in stopping and delaying the spread of this virus."