THE latest statistics reveal that 20 people have sadly died in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic in March this year.
They also show that there are now 147 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the council area.
The daily statistics from Stormont’s Department of Health dashboard include a geographical breakdown of confirmed cases and Coronavirus-related deaths by council area.
Again Belfast, has the highest number of cases and deaths, while the fewest were recorded in the Fermanagh and Omagh district.
The Department of Health’s daily figures are mostly focused on hospital deaths and do not usually include Coronavirus-related deaths in other settings, which are reported separately by Nisra.
The Department of Health’s daily total of Coronavirus-related deaths in the North of Ireland has risen to 365.
Those statistics from the department relate mostly to hospital deaths, and in cases where a patient has tested positive for the virus.
On Friday, it published a new Covid-19 interactive statistics dashboard, which shows that four of the 365 deaths happened in the past 24 hours, with a further 14 occurring at an earlier stage, which have only now been recorded.
Two sets of figures are published in the North of Ireland.
There is the daily set produced by the Department of Health, which count mostly hospital deaths, and the weekly statistics from Nisra, which cover all fatalities where coronavirus has been recorded on the death certificate.
The Nisra statistics, published this morning, recorded 393 deaths by last Friday, April 24.
It revealed that 40 per cent of the deaths are now in care homes as opposed to deaths in hospitals.
The Department of Health has said there is always a time lag for registering deaths in the community, with the process taking up to five days, and that the Nisra report could not feasibly be linked to the daily figures.
The total death toll is ultimately likely to be higher.
Health Minister Robin Swann recently said that Coronavirus could ultimately claim around 1,500 when the first wave of the pandemic is over.
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