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46 more cases, no further deaths in Derry

written by cassoscoop December 21, 2020
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THE Department of Health has announced a further 555 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.

That’s a rise of 50 cases the department reported yesterday for Saturday.

There has been a further seven deaths (none outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 1,203.

None of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.

A total of 64,497 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 446 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.

A total of 30 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 24 of whom are on ventilators.

Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now down to 95 per cent from a high of last week of 105 per cent.

In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 7,751 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past eight months.

In the past 24 hours, a further 46 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of 15 on the previous days figures.

Over the last week, 310 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.

The positive test rate in the council area is now at 5,114 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 88 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.

A total of 87 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus at present with 405 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.

46 more cases, no further deaths in Derry was last modified: December 21st, 2020 by cassoscoop

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