The Manx Independent leads on a story we’ve been hoping to report for weeks.

There are now no active cases of Covid-19 on the Isle of Man.

But we must still be cautious.

One of the signs we’re getting back to something like normality is that McDonald’s is open again.

Since so many went yesterday and so many are talking about it, that fact is certainly newsworthy.

Also this week:

Politicians and officials from construction firms are to face questions from a scrutiny committee looking at the delays to the Douglas Promenade scheme.

There’s a new member of the Council of Ministers.

Athlete Catherine Reid says she experienced racism growing up in the Isle of Man.

The Home Affairs Minister says that not all new arrivals at the prison spent 14 days in isolation, contradicting what was said earlier.

The Henry Bloom Noble Healthcare Trust has bought 13 iPads so that patients on the Covid wards in Noble’s Hospital could have some face-to-face communication with families unable to visit them. We hope they won’t have to be used again.

Ray Corkhill, who ran the Railway Inn in Union Mills for 17 years, has died following a long battle with illness. We hear tributes.

Ten years after it was created, we find out more about the work the Joey Dunlop Foundation carries out.

There’s a campaign to allow restaurants to feed customers outside on the North Quay in Douglas.

A new pedestrian crossing has been built near the Quarter Bridge roundabout in the capital.

Our food and farming pages reveal that Laxey Glen Mill has doubled its production to keep flour and bread on the shelves of the island’s shops and supermarkets.

The organisers of a long-running music charity event, Manx Charity Aid, have had to put their plans for an anniversary concert on hold for this year, and are instead turning their thoughts to 2021. We look back at its successes.

While the TT might not be on this year, it doesn’t mean there’s no TT news.

We have five special pages about the races, including a chat with Ramsey Rocket Conor Cummins and four-time winner Dave Leach.

In addition, the virtual TT is about to start.

The Manx Independent has your letters, What’s On, a page of puzzles, a page of pictures from the past, readers’ photos, a seven-day television guide and lots of community news.

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