THE Department of Health has asnnounced a further 315 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 76 on the previous figures the department gave for Thursday.
There has been a further nine deaths (one outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 983.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 51,824 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 410 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 33 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 29 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 97 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,882 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past eight months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 44 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of seven on the previous day.
Over the last week, 276 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 4,528 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 now recorded 77 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 142 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus at present with 307 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
There are no further care homes suspected of having COVID-19, say the Department of Health.
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