THE Department of Health has announced a further 649 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 36 on figures the Department released yesterday for Friday.
There has been 8 further deaths, with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 716.
None of the deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 39,116 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 361 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 48 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 41 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 5,536 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 61 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of 5 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 534 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 3,674 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 47 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 109 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 235 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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