THE Department of Health has announced a further 226 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 77 cases on figures given for Monday.
There have been a further four deaths (two outside the current reporting period) from the deadly virus bringing the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, to 2,063.
None of these latest deaths have been recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 1,419 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further four positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours, a fall of eight on the previous day.
Within the past week there have been a further 98 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,193 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 132 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 at 95 per cent.
There are currently 307 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 31 patients currently in intensive care and 29 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 23 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 615 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.