A FURTHER 72 people have tested positive with coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the past 24 hours, according to the Department of Health’s latest update.
This now brings the total number of confirmed positive cases of the virus here to 6,895.
There have been four new cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area in the last 24 hours bringing its total number of positive cases to 272, with 32 positive cases in the last seven days, says the Department.
Most of the 72 confirmed Coronavirus cases recorded in the past 24 hours by the Department of Health were among people aged between 20-39.
Thirty-three of the cases recorded were in that age range.
The fewest cases recorded in the department’s latest update were among those aged between 60-79 and 80 and over.
The death in the Derry and Strabane council boundary from COVID-19 remains at 29.
No new deaths were recorded by the department in the past 24 hours in the North of Irelandd.
The death toll here remains at 559.
The department’s daily figures are mostly comprised of hospital deaths, where a patient had previously tested positive for the virus.
One patient with Covid-19 is currently being treated in intensive care in a hospital here.
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