THE Department of Health has announced a further 334 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 56 cases on the previous day.
There have been a further nine deaths (two outside the current reporting period) from the deadly virus bringing the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, to 1,931.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths have been recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 3,015 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 15 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours, a fall of four for figures reported for Friday.
Within the past week there have been a further 157 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 10,825 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 127 coronavirus deaths within the Derry and Strabane council area to date.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 92 per cent.
There are currently 585 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 66 patients currently in intensive care and 57 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 98 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 528 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
