THE Department of Health has announced a further 549 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 218 on figures the Department released yesterday for Sunday.
There has been a further nine deaths (two outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 878.
The Department says two of these latest deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 47,711 people have now tested positive in the North of Ireland for COVID-19 since the pandemic erupted here in March this year.
The Department says 449 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 45 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 35 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now up to 100 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,336 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 31 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 306 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 4,205 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 71 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 165 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 269 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
A further three care homes are suspected of having Coronavirus.
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