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Six further deaths, 4,243 new cases in North

written by cassoscoop January 27, 2022
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THE Department of Health has announced six further Covid-19-related deaths (one outside the current recording period) in the past 24 hours in the North of Ireland.

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 North of Ireland recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is at 3,092.

None of these latest nine deaths were recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.

Today’s data from the Department of Health shows there has been a further 4,243 positive cases of Coronavirus in the North of Ireland, a fall of 140 on figures given yesterday for Tuesday.

It includes cases confirmed from samples taken in previous days, not necessarily just in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

As of today, the number of positive cases confirmed in the past seven days was 31,895.

The statistics show that in the past 24 hours there has been a further 173 Covid-19 cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a fall of 14 on figures given yesterday for Tuesday.

Over the past seven days, there were 1,485 cases recorded in the Derry and Strabane Council area.

The infection rates within Derry and Strabane now has the lowest of all 11 councils in the North of Ireland with 982.7 cases per 100,000.

Bed occupancy across all hospitals is up to 106 per cent.

The Department of Health now records that 198 people (mostly in hospitals) have died from Coronavirus in the Derry City and Strabane Council area.

There are currently 387 patients with Covid-19 in hospital here.

There are 22 patients with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care units, with 18 people on ventilators.

There are 36 people being treated in Altnagelvin Hospital with Coronavirus with five people in intensive care.

The figures show that 8.38 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are occupied by people with Coronavirus and it is running at 3.63 per cent over capacity for beds.

The Department of Health reports that 197 care homes in the North of Ireland are dealing with an outbreak of Coronavirus, with 1,107 closed cases of Covid-19 in care homes here.

In the Western Trust area, 39 of its 67 care homes are dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 3,658,341 vaccines for Covid-19 had been administered in the North of Ireland as of Thursday.

Of that total, 1,413,723 were first doses, 1,310,551 were second doses and the remaining were third doses.

A total of 914,606 booster vaccines have been administered.

Six further deaths, 4,243 new cases in North was last modified: January 27th, 2022 by cassoscoop

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