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How has Covid-19 impacted on your life?

The Public Records Office wants to know so that it can create an archive.

Graeme Cousins reports in tomorrow's paper about how the 'Stay Home' Memories will capture people's experiences through documents and photographs and diaries.

Meanwhile, the relatively low number of recent daily deaths has been maintained on Tuesday, with only two fatalities in Northern Ireland.

But the battle to control the virus in care homes is ongoing, with 71 establishments known to have infections.

Moral and ethical and social debates feature significantly in Wednesday's News Letter.

We report on the front page on the abortion motion in Stormont.

And inside, and on the letters page, a man who has served for about half-a-century on the Church of Ireland’s general synod Dermot O’Callaghan explains who he will leave the church altogether if it recognises "non-binary gender identities".

Also, a Catholic convert to Anglicanism - Gerry Lynch - writes in the News Letter about how much he is missing worship in church and communion, and he discusses safe ways for Christians to hold services.

In other news in Wednesday's edition, a 76-year-old Rathlin Island resident was yesterday cautioned by police after he refused to get off the Rathlin Island ferry, insisting he had a right to travel to Ballycastle for essential items.

And on our sport pages, Brendan Rodgers claims he has been shunned by some family members because he walked out on Celtic.

Ben Lowry
Deputy editor

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Here Is today's coronavirus update:

Northern Ireland’s chief scientific advisor to the Department of Health says it is likely the public will be able to visit relatives indoors some time before July 20
Prof Ian Young made the comments on BBC Radio Foyle’s Breakfast Show today.

The death toll of people with coronavirus has risen to 526 after another two people with the virus died in the last 24 hours
The death toll includes 271 men and 254 women.
To date 351 people aged 80-years and older have died with coronavirus, 150 people aged 60-79 years, 23 people aged 40-59 years and two others and in the last 24 hours another 4 people tested positive for COVID-19.

PSNI officers have sailed over to Rathlin Island after an incident over the easing of lockdown restrictions
A PSNI spokesman confirmed: “Police attended a report of an incident at the Rathlin Island area on Tuesday 2nd June.

Queues of cars as McDonald’s drive-thrus reopen in NI
The Bangor and Newtownards branches opened for drive-thru only customers, with a limited menu and £25 maximum spend on Tuesday morning.

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland has revealed details of its programme of events for Twelfth of July celebrations with a difference
The health crisis will see the Orange Family mark the 330th Anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne at home as restrictions in place means that all traditional Twelfth of July parades and gatherings have been cancelled.