THE Department of Health has reported a further 1,061 new cases in the North of Ireland in the past 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 262 on figures given yesterday for Thursday.
There have been five Covid-19-related deaths over the same period.
Deaths are measured by recording those who died within 28 days of receiving a positive result in a test for coronavirus.
The total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in the North since the start of the pandemic is 2,661 – 171 of these have been recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
That includes cases confirmed from samples taken in recent days, not necessarily just in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
A total of 266,126 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the North of Ireland since the pandemic began.
There were 358 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals in the North of Ireland on Friday.
There were 33 patients with Covid-19 in hospital intensive care units on Friday with 24 patients on ventilators.
The Department of Health does not release statistics on patients with Covid-19 in hospitals at weekends or at bank holidays.
To date, a total of 2,614,760 vaccines have been administered across the North of Ireland.
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