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One more death, 365 new cases in North

written by cassoscoop April 27, 2022
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THE Department of Health has reported one further Covid-19-related deaths 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 3,414.

This latest death was not recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.

Today’s data from the Department of Health shows there has been a further 365 cases in the North of Ireland over the past 24 hours, a fall of 125 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 3,329.

The statistics show there has been a further 21 Covid-19 cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area in the past 24 hours, a fall of 17 on figures given yesterday for Monday.

Over the past seven days, there were 236 recorded cases in the Derry and Strabane Council area.

The infection rates within Derry and Strabane is the fourth lowest of all 11 councils in the North of Ireland with 156 cases per 100,000.

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

The Department of Health now records that 223 people (mostly in hospitals) have died from Coronavirus in the Derry City and Strabane Council area.

There are currently 356 patients with Covid-19 in hospitals here.

There are four patients with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care units with one person on a ventilator.

There are 27 people being treated in Altnagelvin Hospital with Coronavirus and no one with Covid-19 is in intensive care.

The figures show that 7.24 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are occupied by people with Coronavirus with the hospital running at 7.52 over capacity for beds.

The Department of Health reports that 91 care homes in the North of Ireland are dealing with an outbreak of Coronavirus, with 1,501 closed cases of Covid-19 in care homes here.

In the Western Trust area, 25 of its 67 care homes are dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 3,793,542 vaccines have been administered to date across the North of Ireland as of Wednesday.

Of those figures, more than one million booster and third dose vaccinations have now been administered in the North of Ireland to date.

One more death, 365 new cases in North was last modified: April 27th, 2022 by cassoscoop

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