THE Department of Health has reported a further 514 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 43 on figures the Department released yesterday for Sunday.
There has been 11 further deaths, with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 802.
Sadly, the Department reports that four of these latest deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 43,902 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 420 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 50 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 39 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 99 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,026 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 63 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of 32 on previous day.
Over the last week, 374 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 3,999 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 63 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 146 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 257 cosed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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