The programme is back after an Easter break and it's tackling two of the major coronavirus talking points of today - care homes and the economy.

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GP concerns over the lack of PPE - or personal protective equipment - have been a major issue in the past number of weeks.

On Monday, GP federations in north and west Belfast said they could withdraw servicesdue to "shortages of PPE, particularly masks and aprons".

The chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) says those concerns "have been addressed at the highest level" but there are worries over the use of PPE during normal GP appointments.

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"We support the use of PPE when carrying out face to face consultations with patients," Dr Dorman said.

"This could extend in some circumstances to inviting a patient to wear a mask.

"These patients may be asymptomatic and not exhibiting signs of the virus, but GPs must keep themselves and their patients safe during these unprecedented times in keeping with PHE (Public Health England) guidance."

John Campbell
BBC News NI Economics and Business Editor

Here are the three letters to consider over Northern Ireland's ability to bounce back economically after lockdown - V, U and L.

The best scenario is V-shaped - a rapid drop followed by an equally rapid recovery; a U-shape would see a longer recovery time; an L-shape would see a drop with no real recovery.

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The policy choices the government are making should hopefully avoid those worst-case scenarios, because they are spending huge amounts of money to make sure that people do not become unemployed, that they remain attached to their companies and hopefully that those companies remain viable and they can come back in the not too distant future

We're clearly not going to get a situation where every business survives and every job survives.

Hospitality is a particular worry because those were the first businesses which closed and when we start to get to the stage of easing restrictions they are likely to be the last ones to reopen.

Plus how comfortable are people going to be in large crowds in the months to come? Are people going to go back to doing the things they did or are they going to be much more cautious?

There's been plenty of warnings recently about scams but here's a fresh one from the Department of Justice on criminals selling fake Covid-19 medical products online.

In a tweet, the department says there are "no medicines licensed for treatment" or "official self-testing kits approved for home use".

Education Minister Peter Weir is appearing in front of Stormont's education committee right now - he's told them that the "exam situation will be coming to conclusion very quickly".

Exams in Northern Ireland have been cancelled but students and parents are waiting to hear how grades will be awarded.

The minister says his department has worked with the Department of Health to make a "major announcement on the childcare and childminding situation".

You can follow along with the committee via our Stormont live page here.

Richard Morgan
BBC News NI business reporter

A director at InterTrade Ireland has told BBC News NI that cross-border activity has plunged due to the impact of Covid-19.The group has helped thousands of businesses to explore cross-border markets for more than two decades.Aidan Gough told Good Morning Ulster that activity is continuing, but not at the same level.

“There is lots of cross-border interaction still taking place, but there’s no doubt that the level of activity has plunged as the level of economic activity has plunged globally," he said.

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Mr Gough's comments come as Ulster Bank's chief economist warned that the Northern Ireland economy is enduring its "fastest and deepest" decline ever.

However, the InterTrade Ireland director insisted “entrepreneurs are resilient" and that "activity will certainly pick up".

He said the question was how quickly it will pick up after lockdown restrictions ease.The organisation had also launched an online platform to help businesses collaborate to produce essential goods like PPE and ventilators.

Niall McCracken
Video journalist

About 40% of people in Northern Ireland live in rural areas.

With lockdown as a result of the coronavirus continuing across the UK, rural communities have been some of those most affected by isolation.

These community transport groups have been providing a lifeline to many vulnerable and elderly people who live in the most remote parts of Northern Ireland.

Former Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson has described suffering from suspected coronavirus as a “very unpleasant experience”.

He told BBC Radio Shropshire he suffered from terrible headaches before parliament rose for Easter, followed by a fever, bad chest and loss of taste, smell and appetite.

"I’ve got off pretty lightly, but don’t underestimate – it’s a really horrible thing," he said.

Eddie Lynch, the NI commissioner for older people, says there has been progress in terms of the problems facing care homes.

"I've been talking to representatives of the care home industry on a regular basis and we've heard of good progress being made in terms of the distribution of PPE," he tells The Nolan Show.

"It is welcome that now the [health] minister has said testing will be carried out in homes, because that's been one of the issues up to now where we haven't had any testing in the care home setting."

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He adds: "I welcome the statements from the chief medical officer and the minister in the last 24 hours that every life matters, every life was equal.

"I think we have a moral duty as a society that we're reporting every single victim of Covid in the same way."

Northern Ireland's two universities are teaming up with a biosciences institute to increase Covid-19 testing.

Queen's University and Ulster University have formed a Covid-19 consortium with the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) - the AFBI will assist the health service in testing up to 1,000 samples a day from suspected Covid-19 cases, Edwin Poots has confirmed.

In a statement, Mr Poots says: “We must all work together, across government to support the health minister and the health trusts in any way we can."

AFBI will conduct the tests at its labs in Stormont and testing is planned to commence shortly, for an initial 12-week period.

Former Blue Peter Presenter Zoe Salmon has been giving parents craft ideas on BBC Good Morning Ulster to keep little ones entertained at home while in lockdown.

Ms Salmon is teaching children how, using just four items from around the house, these craft ideas can help keep those new home-school desks tidy.

What do you need to construct the perfect desk tidy? A container, an odd sock, a piece of paper or card and a little pom-pom or cotton wool ball.

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"When I was deciding what to make today I wanted to choose something that was super simple, because everyone has a spare container around the house," Zoe says.

"I think there are a lot of kids out there who do spend a lot of time with crafts, which I think is great because I think in a digital age, of course, it's really easy to be distracted on our tablets.

"Hopefully we'll get the creative juices of the nation going."

Jayne McCormack
BBC News NI political reporter

Ulster Unionist MLA Robbie Butler, who served 16 years as a firefighter, has offered to return to the fire service during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Speaking on BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mr Butler says he would "love to be used operationally", but he would be more than happy to assist "in whatever way possible".

"The only thing I couldn't do is drive the trucks," he says.

"I used to drive the fire engines, but that's not not on my license."

On Monday, the Fire Brigades' Union said 147 firefighters in Northern Ireland are currently self-isolating.

Mr Butler joined the fire service on Valentine's Day in 2000 and left in 2016 to take up a career in politics as a Lagan Valley assembly member.

If you're suffering from domestic abuse or violence, then you should "reach out, contact someone on the helpline or a friend and ask for help", says Justice Minister Naomi Long.

She tells Good Morning Ulster that if people are afraid to talk to police they can phone 999 then press the numbers 55, adding "the police will know its an emergency and you can't speak on the phone and they will treat that as a priority call and come to your assistance".

While calls to helplines have gone up, the PSNI have said they haven't seen an increase in the number of domestic violence calls.

Mrs Long says this may be because a lot of calls are from concerned relatives and friends who know abuse is happening but are not phoning about specific incidents.

She says one of the main concerns is evidence that during a period of lockdown there is "an increase in domestic violence and abuse but it may not always be reported at the time, it may only come to light after the restrictions have been lifted when people are able to pick up the phone and speak to someone".

With people at home so much, and unable to shop in person, it's no surprise that Royal Mail workers are finding the lockdown period so busy.

A representative from the Royal Mail parcel sorting office in Londonderry says they are seeing an "unprecedented" amount of parcels.

Charlie Kelly, from the Communications Workers Union at the sorting office, tells BBC Radio Foyle that due to "25% of staff being off" and "new ways of working with social-distancing" it's becoming very difficult.

"This is way and above anything I've ever experienced in this job, at Christmas, or anytime. It is horrendous," Mr Kelly said.

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Mr Kelly says he cannot understand why people during lockdown are insistent on purchasing items, mostly clothes, at this moment in time.

"People aren't going anywhere, the stuff that has been ordered, why can it not wait," he tells the programme.

"It's just lorry after lorry, it's very stressful."

In a statement, a Royal Mail spokesperson said they have "made a series of adjustments to our parcel-handling procedures" to protect colleagues and customers.

As the crisis continues, the atmosphere is getting worse in care homes - that's according to the chief executive of charity Age NI.

Linda Robinson tells Good Morning Ulster that there's "fear, uncertainty and panic".

She adds that deaths in care homes and residential care should be added to official figures in order to get an accurate assessment of how the disease is spreading.

"The majority of care is done in people's homes, so I hope the figures will also show the statistics for those who are cared for and shielded in their own homes."

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The issue of official death figures - who is counted and who is not - has been a key debate in recent days, with an announcement on Monday that deaths in care homes will be released each week.

Care home director Jarlath Conway welcomed this on Good Morning Ulster, saying that not counting those deaths was "creating the impression that the death of an older person in a care home isn't as important as someone dying in hospital".

Colm Gildernew, the chair of Stormont's health committee, adds that it's "vital" those deaths are counted.

"There's an atmosphere of grave concern among that sector and we need to do a lot more to support them," he says.

Care homes could swabbing residents for coronavirus within days - that's according to a director of two care homes in west Belfast.

It comes after it was confirmed on Monday that 32 care homes have been affected by Covid-19, amid fears that the elderly have been forgotten about during this crisis.

Jarlath Conway tells Good Morning Ulster that the RQIA, the industry's regulator, has told him that the system was "up and running".

Jennifer Moore, a care home owner who was on the programme with Mr Conway, says she hasn't heard of any moves toward in-home swabbing by care home staff.

Watch this space and we'll try to find out if this is a new initiative.

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Mr Conway says his staff have had great difficulties with testing, but staff can now go to the SSE Arena and get results within 48 hours.

"We've had staff who've tested positive and staff who've tested negative but we're recording temperatures of staff and residents twice daily."

Continuing the sports discussion, Good Morning Ulster also spoke to Peter McCarthy, from the North West Cricket Union, who says the hardship fund will "relieve a bit of the short-term pressure" on clubs, but stresses that more long-term solutions are needed to keep them going.

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He acknowledges that the cricket season may not happen this year, and adds that when the lockdown is over, clubs have an important role to play in terms of getting the community active again, so they need support.

In terms of licenses premises, all sponsorship is suspended and bar income from April to the end of August will be "wiped out", he says.

Like most sectors, sport is having a hard time right now with small clubs struggling to keep themselves going - which is why Ulster GAA chief executive Brian McEvoy welcomes a £500,000 sporting sector hardship fund launched by Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey.

However, clubs still have "bills to pay, grass to cut", he tells Good Morning Ulster.

He adds that sporting clubs in England and Wales have been offered a 12-month rates holiday, while clubs here will get three month and are not eligible for the small business grants scheme.

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He said the lack of certainty over the likelihood of the Ulster Championship going ahead is a worry and that the loss of the tournament and its associated sponsorship "would be catastrophic, not just for 2020, but for 2021, 2022, 2023".

"The earliest we could see it happening would be July, but people are saying that's very optimistic," he says.

Getting medicine to people who need it most, but may not be able to leave their home, is more important than ever - that's why a new service, manned by volunteers, has been set up to deliver prescriptions and medicine.

Health and Social Care Board has been working with the Community Development and Health Network (CDHN) to coordinate volunteer organisations who will support community pharmacies, which have been experiencing a very high demand for their services in the last month due to the pandemic.

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The CDHN will coordinate volunteer organisations throughout Northern Ireland to collect and deliver medication to patients and provide volunteer support to help within community pharmacies.

This could include helping to control the numbers allowed into pharmacies to maintain social distancing requirements.

Justice Minister Naomi Long has said that "while we are all being urged to stay at home to stop the spread of Coronavirus, this does not mean victims of domestic violence should feel forgotten or alone".

“The ‘stay at home’ message is designed to keep all of us safe in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, but for those in an abusive relationship, staying at home means they do not feel safe at all," she said.

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Help available includes the 24hr Domestic and Sexual Abuse helpline on 0808 802 1414, and there are also non-verbal ways for victims to reach out through the helpline, for example via web and instant message.

If you need to ring the PSNI but are too scared to speak, the ‘silent solution’ means you can call 999 and press 55 when prompted.

Naomi Long will be speaking more about this on Good Morning Ulster shortly after 8.30.