THE Department of Health has announced a further 516 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 163 on figures the Department released yesterday for Tuesday.
There has been 12 further deaths (four outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 752.
None of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 41,374 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 409 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 49 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 42 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 100 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 5,786 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 65 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a fall of 14 on previous day.
Over the last week, 455 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 3,840 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 126 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 250 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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