THE Stormont executive is set to discuss a pathway out of lockdown, as a further 16 deaths were confirmed in the north over the weekend.
The Department of Health recorded 11 Covid-19 -related deaths on Saturday and a further five today, bringing the total to 381.
The figures are one of two sets currently being produced.
Statistics agency Nisra said on Friday there had been 393 deaths up to April 24 according to information on death certificates.
Sinn Féin communities minister Deirdre Hargey said that the executive would adopt a "phased approach" to easing lockdown restrictions.
She said ministers are to meet on Monday, Wednesday and likely Thursday as part of intensive work evaluating the battle against coronavirus.
Details will be published within the next two weeks.
"As we start to ease those restrictions it's important that we don't do that too quick in that you reverse the good work that has been done up until now," she told the BBC.
"We have to gradually introduce those slowly, adhering to the medical advice and looking at the modelling as we start to move through an easement process and indeed that has to be planned and managed."
She said the lockdown will not be completely lifted and there will still be a "level of social distancing" to guard against a potential second wave of the virus.
British Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said Prime Minister Boris Johnson will also set out a plan for easing lockdown restrictions on Thursday.
He said some social distancing measures will remain in place until a vaccine has been developed but ministers will seek to restore people's lives to "as close to normal as possible".
The UK Covid-19 death toll now stands at 28,446 after 315 fatalities were added to the total yesterday.
It also emerged that testing up to 9am on Sunday had fallen to 76,496 - a drop from 122,000 tests carried out on April 30.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps admitted that fewer people would have died if more tests had been available earlier.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar revealed a five-stage plan to exit lockdown in the Republic last Friday.
A further 19 people with Covid 19 died in the south yesterday, bringing the death toll to 1,303.
Officials also said that 950 people are being treated in hospitals with either confirmed or suspected cases of the virus.
Of those, 98 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases are being treated in intensive care.
HSE chief operations officer Anne O'Connor said the health service has not seen the kind of numbers it had originally feared.
It has also emerged that it has a plan for private hospitals to carry out urgent procedures that are not coronavirus-related that may have been delayed due to the outbreak.
"Our original intention for the use of the private hospitals was as part of our surge capacity and to give us extra capacity to meet the demand over Covid-19," HSE chief executive Paul Reid said.
