THE Department of Health’s daily total of coronavirus-related deaths in Northern 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.
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.
