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but the teenager says she will not stop campaigning on climate. i will definitely continue to be an activist. the need for that is not going to reduce, if you say so, unfortunately. so don't expect greta thunberg to fade into the background. there has been one more death linked to covid—19 in northern ireland since yesterday, according to the daily figures from the stormont department of health. the department's total now stands at 545. this figure relates mainly to deaths in hospital there have been zero new cases of the virus. let's speak to clodagh rice in belfast. it was a bit more detail on what the latest update is. the latest update today as there has been one more death linked to coronavirus in the last 2a hours in northern ireland. that brings the
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total number recorded by the department of health to 545. these figures relate mostly to deaths in hospital as well as some but not all other settings. one of the more may be positive sides of these statistics is that there has been no new cases of coronavirus recorded in any new cases of coronavirus recorded in a ny tests new cases of coronavirus recorded in any tests in northern ireland in the last 24 hours. we are working to try and find out if this is the first time this has happened since the pandemic, certainly in the last few weeks. there have been some days where there have been zero deaths, but many new cases. this could be the first day that there has been zero new cases in northern ireland but that is something we are working on confirming with the department of health this afternoon. and those are records only measuring confirmed tested in any case, but bring us up—to—date on where northern ireland is on the whole lifting of lockdown because obviously every region has got slightly different measures in place. in the last few days northern ireland has announced a range of
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easing of lockdown measures, so from last friday, two fridays ago nonessential retail could reopen and then area this week we got a date for pubs, restaurants and hotels reopen and then just on thursday passed we got a date for things like hairdressers and dentists to get back to work. certainly these are the figures that the stormont executive is using to guide all these policy decisions, so that is why they are so closely watched whenever all of these decisions around when and how much they can use lockdown measures by ahmed. so it will be very interesting to see, we are hoping to potentially hear from the health most this afternoon if this is the first day that there has been no new positive cases in northern ireland, that could be significant progress. although i understand that this is only one day's figures and obviously any positive trend will depend on how these figures progress in the days and weeks ahead. clodagh rice, thank you very much.
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this weekend sees the annual summer solstice at stonehenge. normally thousands of people, including druids, gather there each year to celebrate — but this year the site is closed because of coronavirus. but the good news is you'll still be able to watch the sunrise, because english heritage are live—streaming it on their social media channels. now it's time for a look at the weather with helen willets. hello again. we've had fewer showers today, lengthy spells of dry and quite warm, hazy sunshine, but it is all about to change. through this evening at least. the cloud has been rolling in across northern ireland and the first splashes of rain come in through this evening. but for many, where we do have a lot of dry and fine weather, that will continue. the showers will tend to ease away through the latter part of this evening, by which stage our rain is pushing its way steadily west. western britain, northern ireland probably seeing about 20 millimetres of rain, but it's not going to reach the far north—east of mainland scotland or the far south—east before the end of the night.
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it will feel quite mild as a lot of moisture around up there as well, so misty low cloud and helpful. but it clears fairly quickly by around midday from east anglia and the south—east. a little longer it lingers across the far north—east of scotland. and there will be a rash of showers, strong and gusty winds that follows, close to gales in the north—west, so that's the difference. i think it will feel a little bit fresher tomorrow despite some sunshine between the showers. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... a review into the two—metre social distancing rule in england is due to conclude in the coming days. the chancellor says he wants businesses to be able to trade again. particularly for the hospitality industry they are keen to see some changes. that is why we are reviewing the rule and the outcome will be announced later this week. a statue is pulled down and burnt in washington dc of poet and jurist albert pike, who served as a confederate general.
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