THE Department of Health has announced a further 1,564 Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 258 cases on figures given yesterday for Sunday.
There has been seven further deaths (two outside the current reporting period) from the virus in the past 24 hours with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, now at 2,258.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 10,099 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 195 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a rise of 38 on figures given yesterday for Sunday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 1,081 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 19,076 positive cases within the council boundary – the third highest among all 11 councils in the North.
The rate of infection within the Derry and Strabane Council area has risen to 714.6 cases per 100,000, the second highest of all 11 council districts in the North of Ireland.
The Department has now recorded a total of 149 Coronavirus deaths within the Derry and Strabane council area to date – the third lowest out of all councils here.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 102 per cent.
There are currently 392 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 47 patients being treated in intensive care with 33 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 8.07 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are treating 34 patients with Coronavirus, a reduction of over five per cent in the previous 24 hours.
Six of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s over half of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
A total of 128 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 693 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
Sixteen out of 70 residential care homes in the Western Trust area are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
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