THE Department of Health has reported a further 493 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 192 on figures the Department released yesterday for Saturday.
There has been 8 further deaths (one outside this reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 724.
Sadly, two of the deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 39,609 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 379 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 52 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 42 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 5,589 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 53 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a fall of 8 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 513 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 3,709 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 49 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 120 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 236 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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