The Stormont executive will meet today to decide whether to allow restrictions to ease significantly on Monday.
Live music is due to fully return, while audiences would be allowed in theatres and concert halls.
Social distancing would be reduced to one metre indoors - and scrapped entirely outdoors and on public transport.
Belfast GP Alan Stout, from the British Medical Association, says the measures shouldn't proceed, with nearly 2,000 Covid cases yesterday.
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