THE Department of Health has reported a further 79 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 201 on the previous figures the department gave for Saturday.
There has been a further 11 deaths (four outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 947.
None of these latest deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 50,143 people have now tested positive in the North of Ireland for COVID-19 since the pandemic erupted here in March this year.
The Department says 445 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 37 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 29 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now up to 99 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,623 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, just eight people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test.
Over the last week, 282 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 4,396 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 75 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
Last Friday, the NI Statistics and Research Agency reported that up to last Friday, November 13, it recorded a total of 73 deaths in the Derry City and Strabane Distric Council area.
Nisra records all deaths where Coronavirus is recorded on a death certificate which includes hospitals, hospices, care homes and residential addresses whereas the Department of Health records deaths mostly in hospitals.
A total of 142 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 303 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
The Department of Health’s Coronavirus dash board says there are no further care homes suspected of having COVID-19.
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