THE Department of Health has announced a further 679 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 109 on figures the Department released yesterday for Monday.
There has been 10 further deaths, with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 740.
Sadly, one of those deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 40,858 people have now tested positive in the North of Ireland to COVID-19 since the pandemic erupted here in March this year.
The Department says 418 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 50 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 42 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 101 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 5,721 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 79 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of 26 on previous day.
Over the last week, 452 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
Six people have returned indeterminate test results.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 3,797 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 Department of Health has recorded 51 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 120 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 248 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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