A FURTHER four deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported by the Department of Health today, Thursday, May 7.
It brings their total, mostly comprising of hospital deaths, to 422.
Two of the deaths happened since Wednesday with the other two being deaths that have now been recorded as COVID-19 related.
These figures are one of two sets published in the North of Ireland.
Each Friday statistics agency Nisra publishes their weekly update.
Those statistics cover all fatalities where Coronavirus has been recorded on the death certificate.
By 24 April, Nisra had recorded 393 COVID-19 related deaths here.
Tomorrow, Nisra will release details of all COVID-19-related deaths which occurred in hospitals, care homes, hospices and residential addresses up until Friday, May 1.
To date, 20 people in the Derry City and Strabane District Council are have sadly lost their lives to Coronavirus with 155 confirmed cases of COVID-19
There are now 26 people being treated in intensive care in the North of Ireland with confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Health – an increase of two since Wednesday.
There are 34 intensive care beds still available.
The figures also indicate there are 656 inpatients across 19 hospitals with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.
A total of 4,886 people have been admitted to hospital since the pandemic began.
And 4,230 patients have been discharged.
A total of 3,984 people have so far tested positive for the deadly virus.
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