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Three more deaths, 2,269 new cases in North

written by cassoscoop March 23, 2022
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THE Department of Health has reported three further Covid-19-related deaths over 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 DoH records that none of these deaths happened outside the current reporting period.

The total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in the North of Ireland recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is at 3,285.

Sadly, one of these latest deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.

Today’s data from the Department of Health shows there has been a further 2,269 positive cases of Coronavirus in the North of Ireland, a fall of 620 on figures given yesterday for Monday.

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 13,964.

The statistics show that in the past 24 hours there has been a further 205 Covid-19 cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a fall of 49 on figures given yesterday for Monday.

Over the past seven days, there were 1,233 cases recorded in the Derry and Strabane Council area.

The infection rates within Derry and Strabane is now the fourth hightest of all 11 councils in the North of Ireland with 816 cases per 100,000.

Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now up to 108 per cent.

The Department of Health now records that 212 people (mostly in hospitals) have died from Coronavirus in the Derry City and Strabane Council area.

There are currently 527 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals here.

There is seven patients with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care units with four people on ventilators.

There are 17 people being treated in Altnagelvin Hospital with Coronavirus and no persons with Covid-19 are in intensive care.

The figures show that 12.04 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are occupied by people with Coronavirus and it is running at 9.24 per cent over capacity for beds.

The Department of Health reports that 153 care homes in the North of Ireland are dealing with an outbreak of Coronavirus, with 1,347 closed cases of Covid-19 in care homes here.

In the Western Trust area, 26 of its 67 care homes are dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 3,749,186, vaccines have been administered to date across the North of Ireland as of Wednesday.

Three more deaths, 2,269 new cases in North was last modified: March 23rd, 2022 by cassoscoop

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