The PSNI urge people to avoid beaches and beauty spots during the bank holiday
There have been eight more deaths recorded in Northern Ireland, bringing the Department of Health's total to 514
A further 118 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died across the UK, bringing the total to 36,793
In the Republic of Ireland, there have been no new deaths related to Covid-19. Its total is 1,606.
That's all for our coverage of the coronavirus crisis in Northern Ireland and beyond on this Bank Holiday Monday.
We'll be back tomorrow from 07:30 BST with all the usual updates.
For now, enjoy the rest of your day if you are lucky enough to be off work.
Image source, PacemakerThe Republic of Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan has said that no new Covid-19-related deaths is "part of a downward trend that they've been seeing".
However, the CMO said that although the recording of no new Covid-19-related deaths has not been seen since mid-March, there is always a "weekend effect" in terms of reporting and believes that this can result in delays.
On social distancing, the CMO said he understands that this is something businesses would "like to see progress with".
Image source, PA MediaDr Holohan says the two-metre social distancing guideline will be "kept under review" and will "continue to be looked at".
"The risk that is attached to spreading of infections when people are at a distance of two metres is less than one metre," Dr Holohan says.
However, he stresses that it is not "a magic thing on it's own" and says "we think two metres is a reasonable compromise given where we are".
The Irish Department of Health reports that there have been no Covid-19 deaths reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.
The department said there were 59 confirmed new cases of Covid-19 in the country bringing the total amount of cases to 24,698.
The total number of Covid-19 related deaths in the Republic of Ireland is 1,606.
The department reported 1,608 Covid-19 related deaths yesterday, but has now said that after the "validation of data", two have been removed. The new figure of 1,606 reflects this.
The deputy chair of the Northern Ireland Conservatives has said the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings has been the victim of a "witch hunt".
Gary Hynds said it was "a media hounding of a man who was looking after his young family".
Mr Hynds conceded that Mr Cummings' statement today would "probably not" be the end of the matter.
"I would suggest quite a number of journalists who don't like Dominic Cummings for all sorts of reasons - being the man who delivered Brexit and the Conservative majority in December - I would say quite a lot of them will hound him," he said.
Image source, AFPThe Belfast Chamber has appealed to Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers to give them some indication of when shops might re-open here as lockdown eases.
The organisation represents many of the city centre's retailers.
The chamber's chief executive Simon Hamilton said there was a "real keenness to start trading again" but, retailers felt at a disadvantage compared to England and the Republic of Ireland, which have both been given dates for the reopening of non-essential retail.
Image source, pacemakerEngland is working towards a date of 1 June and the Republic is aiming for 8 June.
"It is essential that the executive give retailers here sufficient time to prepare for reopening," said Mr Hamilton.
"Without a signal or a sense of when we might move to Step 2 for non-essential retail, as stores have in England and the Republic of Ireland, then local retailers are, to put it bluntly, operating at present in a vacuum compared to their colleagues elsewhere."
Jonathan Blake
BBC political correspondent
Dominic Cummings has given a detailed account of what he did, when and why. So what have we learned from his side of the story?
He said his London home had become a “target” which led him to fear for the safety of his family.
Mr Cummings also admitted not telling the prime minister about his decision to decide to travel to his parent’s property in Durham.
He explained some of the uncertainties about his movements including what he was doing in Castle Bernard (to test his eyesight for driving) and whether he stopped on the journey from London (he didn’t).
But on several occasions, Mr Cummings described the “exceptional circumstances” of providing care for a small child, which he believed the guidelines allow.
He acknowledged that people were angry and “hated the idea of unfairness” - and admitted that he should’ve made a statement sooner.
But this was an explanation for his actions, not an apology.
It will be for people to judge whether they accept it as a justification for what many see as acting against the spirit, if not the letter, of the rules.
Image source, PA MediaChildren cannot continue to stay out of school for "months and months" longer, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says.
But he told BBC Breakfast he recognised there would be "initial nervousness" among parents about children returning.
Teachers' unions have warned it is not safe to open England's primary schools on 1 June.
On Sunday, Boris Johnson accepted some schools would not be ready to open.
The education secretary said the first steps for returning to school had to begin.
"We cannot be in a situation where we go for months and months where children are missing out on education," said Mr Williamson.
The Prime Minister's special adviser Dominic Cummings has said he did not believe he broke the rules over the coronavirus lockdown.
Speaking in the garden at 10 Downing Street on Monday, Mr Cummings said: "I know that millions of people have been suffering and thousands have died.
"I want to clear up the confusion."
The PM's special adviser read from a statement, saying he gave a full account to the prime minister for his actions.
Mr Cummings is facing calls from Labour and some Tory MPs to quit or be fired.
He travelled 260 miles with his family to be near relatives in Durham when his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms.
Boris Johnson insists his aide acted legally and within guidelines - but critics say the government's lockdown message has been undermined.
Mr Cummings said his situation was "exceptional circumstances" and the way he had dealt with it was the least risk for everybody concerned given he had a small child.
He said that stories in the media had suggested he opposed lockdown - but that he had "argued for it".
He said stories in the media had "created a very bad atmosphere around my home" - making it a "target - and that he worried about "the possibility of leaving my wife and child at home all day ... while I worked at No 10".
He added that driving to the "isolated cottage" in County Durham - which he says does not have neighbours in the "normal sense" - was the "best thing to do".
He also said that his London home was a target of harassment so he took expert medical advice and believes he made the right judgement call.
"I think that I behaved reasonably," he said.
Mr Cummings said there was understandable anger but it was based on reports in the media that were not true.
Image source, PacemakerThe deaths of nine people at a north Belfast nursing home were Covid-19 related, according to the company that operates the care home.
Runwood Homes which runs Clifton Nursing Home issued a statement on Monday.
It said that in all nine cases, residents had pre-existing or underlying health conditions and offered condolences to residents' families.
The home has been in the news over the report that residents were to be relocated amid concerns about its handling of a Covid-19 outbreak.
It follows recent inspections by the care home regulator, the RQIA.
The health minister said the relocation was being handled in consultation with residents and their families.
In its statement, Runwood Homes said that the RQIA had raised an issue with management oversight at local level: "This was in the latter stages of a very difficult time for the service and the wider sector," it said.
It said there were three separate units within Clifton Home and one remained clear of infection.
Of 29 residents who tested positive, 20 have now recovered, the statement said.
On the wider issues, the owners accepted that "environmental standards were not where they needed to be" but argued that "every care home across the sector has had to prepare and react to a virus that we know very little about."
Image source, Getty ImagesThe government has given the go-ahead for elite athletes to return to contact training - when individual sports deem it safe to do so.
The government advises beginning with clusters of two or three athletes, then progressing to groups of four to 12 and ultimately full team training.
It is up to individual sports to assess the risk and consult athletes, coaches and support staff.
The Premier League will discuss the guidance at a meeting on Wednesday.
Clubs in England's top flight returned to 'phase one' non-contact training on 19 May.
Image source, EPAA number of European countries are further lifting their restrictions on Monday. Here's a tour around some of the notable changes:
Belfast's Lord Mayor Danny Baker has said that "social distancing is likely to be with us for some time" and urged the public to "use their own judgement" when using public transport.
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In a video posted to Twitter, Mr Baker said: "If you're going to get on a bus and you think social distancing can't be adhered to then wait for the next one.
"Help protect yourself, your family and the community."
Aodhan Connolly, director of the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium, says the retail sector in Northern Ireland has recorded its worst April and March figures since records began in 1995.
British retail sales plummeted to record lows last month - with an 18% drop in goods sold, according to the The Office for National Statistics (ONS).
"It is going to take a lot to come out of this," Mr Connolly told BBC Radio Foyle.
Mr Connolly said the NI retail market has "one of the most volatile footfalls" in the British isles, due to NI households having half the discretionary income of Great British households.
He believes this is why Northern Ireland is more affected by changes in the economic environment.
Mr Connolly said people are now purchasing cheaper alternatives to what they would normally buy, particularly in terms of food items.
However, he believes the pandemic is simply "quickening up that pace of change that was already happening".
Image source, AFPThe row over the prime minister's most senior advisor, Dominic Cummings, continues to dominate the news - he's expected to give a statement shortly.
Boris Johnson has given him his full backing after Mr Cummings was accused of breaking lockdown rules.
There have been calls for him to quit and for an inquiry to be launched.
So what are the claims being made; what is the government saying and what are others saying?
Read the latest from the BBC's politics team here.
Boris Johnson said his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, "followed the instincts of every father and every parent" when he drove his wife and child to Country Durham during lockdown, rather than isolating at his London home.
But there has been anger from members of the public who did not travel to be closer to their families amidst the crisis.
Kathryn de Prudhoe, from Leeds, said both her and her husband had coronavirus in the first two weeks of lockdown.
But despite having to take care of their two children - aged five and eight-years-old - and her step-father falling ill, they stayed at home and "followed the guidelines".
She told the BBC that her mother was "left on her own" when her stepfather went into hospital, leaving her isolating alone for 14 days.
And when she went to drop shopping at her mother's door, Kathryn discovered her stepfather had taken a turn for the worse.
Image source, Kathryn de Prudhoe"We had to stay three metres apart when she got the news that life support was being turned off," she said.
"I sat on a camping chair three metres apart from her. I didn't hug her. We knew that was the right thing to do and we did what we had to do to keep ourselves and others safe."
When Kathryn's stepfather was laid to rest, only five people were allowed to attend the funeral.
"To now see what Dominic Cummings did, to make a completely new set of rules for himself when we have sacrificed so much, it's completely disrespectful," she said.
"To see somebody who's made the rules flouting them so blatantly is really insulting to families like mine."
Today's update from the Department of Health shows there have now been more than 58,136 tests carried out in Northern Ireland.
A total of 4,609 people have tested positive for Covid-19 - that's 39 new cases in the last 24 hours.
There has been eight further coronavirus-related deaths in Northern Ireland reported by the Department of Health (DoH).
Its total, which is mostly comprised of hospital deaths, now stands at 514.
Image source, Victoria AustinOnline searches for cream teas and afternoon teas to be delivered have surged since the UK went into lockdown, search data has suggested.
Afternoon tea treats topped the list of most increased searches for "delivery" queries in the UK, analysis of data from Google Trends showed.
Other popular terms included TGI, Nando's, takeaways and cakes, as people looked for a "pick-me-up" treat.
People have also been trying to make sure Royal Mail delivers on a Saturday.
Coming up to lunchtime on this Bank Holiday Monday, here's the latest news from Northern Ireland:
Image source, AFPThe PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings is to make a public statement and take questions over allegations he broke coronavirus lockdown rules.
Mr Cummings is facing calls from Labour and some Tory MPs to quit or be fired.
He travelled 260 miles with his family to be near relatives when his wife developed Covid-19 symptoms.
The PM has insisted his closest aide acted legally and within guidelines - but critics say the government's lockdown message has been undermined.
It's not clear yet when on Monday Mr Cummings will make his statement.
