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Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street after recovering from coronavirus as pressure mounts to increase testing and ease the UK lockdown.

A new pilot scheme to contact trace those with coronavirus will get underway in Northern Ireland today. Contact tracing in the UK largely stopped on 12 March, as the government moved into a different stage of its response to the virus. But the Chief Medical Officer here, Dr Michael McBride, said contact tracing plans in NI were now "active".