THE Department of Health has reported a further 166 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of thre cases on figures given for Wednesday.
There have been a further two deaths (none outside the current reporting period) from the deadly virus bringing the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, to 2,068.
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 1,226 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 17 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours, a fall of three on the previous day.
Within the past week there have been a further 90 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,230 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 92 per cent.
There are currently 242 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 29 patients currently in intensive care and 27 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 18 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 621 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
