THE Department of Health has announced a further 471 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 51 on figures the Department released yesterday for Saturday.
There has been 10 further deaths (one outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 791.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 42,917 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 426 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 55 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 43 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 94 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 5,961 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 31 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of three on previous day.
Over the last week, 392 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 3,958 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 59 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 139 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 250 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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