THE Department of Health has reported a further 1,252 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
There has been five further deaths, with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 639.
Sadly, three of these deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
Two women were aged 80 or over and the other patient, a man, was aged between 60 and 79.
A total of 32,286 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 296 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
Thirty four patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 25 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupany across all hospitals is now at 94 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 4,804 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 128 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise 18 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 871 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
Six people have returned indeterminate test results.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 3,188 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 Department of Health has now recorded 34 deaths in hospital in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic erupted here in March.
A total of 92 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 227 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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