THE Department of Health has announced a further 656 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 146 on the previous figures the department gave for Tuesday.
There has been a further 12 deaths (two outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 1,154.
None of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 60,287 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 460 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 32 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 26 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 104 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 7,573 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past eight months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 56 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of 25 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 273 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 5,026 per 100,000 of population, according to the latest figures.
This is the highest of any of the 11 councils in the North of Ireland.
Four people have returned indeterminate test results.
The Department of Health has recorded 83 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 86 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus at present with 396 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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