THE Department of Health has reported a further 877 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That is a fall of 189 on figures it reported yesterday for Saturday.
There has been three further deaths with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, at 591.
A total of 21,035 people have now tested positive in the North of Ireland to COVID-19 since the pandemic erupted here in March this year.
The Department says 140 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
Twenty two patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 15 of whom are on ventilators.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 3,161 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 199 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a fall of 32 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 1,463 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
Four people have returned indeterminate test results.
The positive test rate in the council area is now up to 2,098 per 100,000 of population, according to the new figures.
This is the highest of any of the 11 councils in the North of Ireland.
The council’s death rate is now at 30 since March. It was reported last Thursday that a woman in her 80s died within the council area the previous day.
A total of 46 care homes (a rise of ten since Sunday) are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 216 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
On Friday morning, it emerged that the number of Covid-related deaths in the North of Ireland has surpassed 900, according to new figures.
Figures from the NI Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) show that 906 deaths involving the virus have been recorded up to October 2.
Some four deaths happened last week.
The comparative figure reported by the Department of Health (DoH) to October 2 was 583.
DoH’s daily figures differ from those reported by Nisra as they record deaths where the person has previously tested positive for the virus.
Nisra include deaths where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate.
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