THE Department of Health has reported a further 923 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That is a rise of 95 on figures it reported yesterday for Tuesday.
There has been one further death which puts the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, at 587.
The fatality was a woman aged over 80 who died in a hospital in the Derry City and Strabane area on Wednesday.
A total of 17,110 people have now tested positive in the North of Ireland to COVID-19 since the pandemic erupted here in March this year.
The Department say 120 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
Fifteen patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 11 of whom are on ventilators.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 2,245 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 235 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, that’s a rise of 38 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 1,162 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
Four people have returned indeterminate test results.
The positive test rate in the council area is now up to 1,490 per 100,000 of population, according to the new figures.
This is the highest of any of the 11 councils in the North of Ireland.
The council’s death rate is now at 30 since March.
A total of 35 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 212 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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