THE Department of Health has announced a further 1,321 new cases in the North of Ireland in the past 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 199 on figures given yesterday for Wednesday.
There have been seven further Covid-19-related deaths over the same period (none outside the current reporting period), with the total to date since the start of the pandemic (mostly in hospitals) now at 2,691.
None of these latest deaths were recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 8,224 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 72 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a rise of 15 on numbers given yesterday for Wednesday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 452 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 27,209 positive cases within the council boundary.
The rate of infection within the Derry and Strabane Council area has risen slightly to 299.4 cases per 100,000 – still the lowest rate of all 11 councils in the North.
The Department has recorded a total of 174 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 105 per cent.
There are currently 351 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 34 patients being treated in intensive care with 25 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 10.57 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 44 patients with Coronavirus.
Five of these patients (a fall of one on the previous 24 hours) are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19.
The hospital is currently running at 8.29 per cent over capacity with beds.
A total of 50 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 927 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
A total of ten out of 69 residential care homes in the Western Trust area are still dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
To date, a total of 2,650,769 Coronavirus vaccines have been administered in the North.
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