THE Department of Health has announced a further 1,963 Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 618 cases on figures given yesterday for Tuesday.
There has been nine further deaths (three 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 2,278.
None of these latest nine deaths were recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 10,460 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 232 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a rise of 69 on figures given yesterday for Tuesday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 1,187 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 19,471 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 784.6 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 150 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 379 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 46 patients being treated in intensive care with 31 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 12.07 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 35 patients with Coronavirus.
Six of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s two thirds 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 703 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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