THE number of COVID-19 related deaths in the North of Ireland has fallen for the seventh week, official figures show.
The NI Statistics and Research Agency’s (NISRA’s) latest bulletin shows 816 deaths by 19 June where Coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate.
Seventeen of those deaths were registered last week, a drop from 21 fatalities from the previous week.
The Department of Health’s daily figures recorded 545 deaths by 19 June.
The daily numbers mostly reflect hospital deaths and where patients had tested positive for the virus, whereas Nisra’s weekly figures cover all fatalities in which coronavirus has been recorded on the death certificate.
Nisra has reported that in the week ending 19 June, none of the Covid-linked deaths registered took place in care homes.
But two people whose address was listed as a care home died in hospital.
Of the 816 deaths recorded by 19 June where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, 420 (51.5%) occurred in hospital; 340 (41.7%) occurred in care homes and eight (1%) occurred in hospices.
The weekly Nisra figures said residential addresses or another location were recorded as being the site of 48 deaths (5.9%).
The deaths in care homes and hospices involved 78 separate establishments, Nisra reported.
There have been 27 Coronavirus deaths in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area with 177 positive cases recorded.
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