THE Department of Health has announced a further 548 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 243 on figures the Department released yesterday for Tuesday.
There has been 15 further deaths (four outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 825.
Sadly, the Department says that two of these latest deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 45,241 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 435 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 46 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 35 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now to 101 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,112 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 25 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a fall of 36 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 322 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 4,057 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 66 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 144 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 263 cosed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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