THE Department of Health has reported a further 896 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 27 on figures the Department released yesterday for Friday.
There has been eight further deaths, with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 653.
The Department has now sadly reported that one of the deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 34,105 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 317 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
Thirty seven patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 27 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupany across all hospitals is now at 93 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 5,015 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 100 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a fall of 11 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 832 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 3,328 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 recorded 38 deaths in hospital in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out 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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