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- As children and students return to face-to-face teaching, what other restrictions have been lifted today:
- - Care home residents will be allowed one regular visitor provided they are tested and wear PPE.
- - People will be allowed to leave home to meet one other person outside their household for recreational purposes only, such as to grab a takeaway coffee or tea, go for a walk, a cycle, or have a picnic outdoors
- - Funerals can proceed with a maximum of 30 people, and six people at a wake, although wakes in private homes will not be permitted.
- - Weddings can proceed but with six attendees only.
- The ‘stay at home’ requirement will remain until at least March 29,
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