THE Department of Health has announced a further 84 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 23 on figures given yesterday for Thursday.
There has bee no further death from the deadly virus with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, at 2,116.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 788 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 12 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hour, a rise of three for the previous day.
Within the past week there have been a further 82 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,598 positive cases within the council boundary – the fourth highest among all 11 councils in the North.
The Department has 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 96 per cent.
There is currently no data on impatient admissions for Coronavirus due to a “technical difficulty’, say the Department of Health.
However, 16 beds in intensive units are Covid-19 occupied with ten patients on ventilators.
A total of six care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 643 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
