THE Department of Health has announced a further 722 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of five on figures the Department released yesterday for Sunday.
There has been 13 further deaths, with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 671.
Sadly, two of the deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 35,552 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 360 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
Thirty eight nine patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 33 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupany across all hospitals is now at 102 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 5,156 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 64 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a fall of 13 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 737 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 3,422 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 41 deaths in hospital in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 105 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 229 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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