THE number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland has passed 7,000, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health.
The daily update revealed there have been 85 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number to 7,049.
The Department of Health figures also show there have been 15 outbreaks of the virus in care homes.
There are 17 people in hospital with Covid-19, with two patients in an intensive care unit.
There have no new positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area in the past 24 hours.
In the past seven days there have been 28 positive case within the council’s boundary bringing its total number to 275.
Since the pandemic erupted her in March, there have been 29 deaths in the Derry and Strabane Council, the second lowest across the North of Ireland.
Earlier, government statistics agency Nisra released their weekly update.
It revealed that COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificates of six people last week.
That is two more than the previous week meaning that up to last Friday, there has been a total of 871 COVID-19 related deaths.
The Nisra measure captures all deaths linked to Coronavirus.
It includes confirmed infections and suspected cases in which Coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate.
Under Nisra’s measure, there have been 460 deaths in hospital (52.8%), which includes the deaths of 80 people normally resident in care homes.
Taking that number, and the 351 (40.3%) who died in care homes, the deaths of care home residents account for just under half (49.5%) of all Covid-19 related deaths.
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