THE Department of Health has announced a further 116 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 22 cases on figures given yesterday for Friday.
There have been two further deaths for the third day in a row from the deadly virus with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, now at 2,111
In the past week, the Department has recorded 1,061 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 13 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hour.
Within the past week there have been a further 112 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,532 positive cases within the council boundary – the fourth highest among all 11 councils in the North.
The Department has to date recorded a total of 135 coronavirus deaths within the Derry and Strabane council area to date – the third lowest out of all 11 councils here.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 93 per cent.
There are currently 126 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 15 patients currently in intensive care and 11 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of six care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 641 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
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