THE Department of Health has announced a further 533 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 454 on the previous figures the department gave for Monday.
There has been a further seven deaths (three outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 954.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 50,676 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 443 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 36 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 30 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 98 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,690 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past eight months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 67 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of 58 on the previous day.
Over the last week, 283 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 4,440 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 76 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
Last Friday, the NI Statistics and Research Agency reported that up to last Friday, November 13, it recorded a total of 73 deaths in the Derry City and Strabane Distric Council area.
Nisra records all deaths where Coronavirus is recorded on a death certificate which includes hospitals, hospices, care homes and residential addresses whereas the Department of Health records deaths mostly in hospitals.
A total of 140 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus at present with 305 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
The Department of Health’s Coronavirus dash board says there are no further care homes suspected of having COVID-19.
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