THE Department of Health has announced a further 487 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
There has been a further 12 deaths (two outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 901.
The Department says none of these latest deaths were reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 48,716 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 456 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 41 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 32 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals remains at 100 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,460 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past seven months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 57 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test.
Over the last week, 333 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 4,288 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 73 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 166 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus with 270 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
A further three care homes are suspected of having Coronavirus.
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