THE Department of Health has reported a further 342 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 45 cases on the previous day.
There have been a further six deaths (none outside the current reporting period) from the deadly virus bringing the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, to 2,021.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths has been recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 2,041 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 12 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours, a fall of eight on figures reported for Tuesday.
Within the past week there have been a further 117 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,007 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 107 coronavirus deaths within the Derry and Strabane council area to date – the third lowest out of all 11 councils in the North of Ireland.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now down to 94 per cent.
There are currently 418 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 51 patients currently in intensive care and 42 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 49 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 585 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
