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Weeks after the Northern Ireland Assembly resumed sitting in January following a three-year political deadlock, coronavirus arrived in Northern Ireland.

Despite the fraught deadlock, power-sharing Stormont has been able to steer a clear path towards the resuming of contact tracing, ahead of the rest of the UK.

The move has been made possible by a fall in the rate of new coronavirus cases to fewer than 50 a day.

However many businesses say they have been left in the dark about the plan to end the lockdown.

Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban reports.