THE Department of Health has announced a further 607 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 59 on figures the Department released yesterday for Wednesday.
There has been 11 further deaths (three outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 836.
Sadly, the Department says that two of these latest deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 45,848 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 443 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 44 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 34 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 101 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,156 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 44 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of 19 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 304 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 4,086 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 68 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 147 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 266 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
A further three care homes are suspected of having Coronavirus.
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