THE Department of Health has announced a further 472 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 39 on figures the Department released yesterday for Friday.
There has been nine further deaths (two outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 855.
The Department says none of these latest deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 46,359 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 415 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 49 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 39 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 6,245 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 34 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a fall of 21 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 301 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 4,145 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 68 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 147 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 266 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
A further three care homes are suspected of having Coronavirus.
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