THE Department of Health has reported a further 351 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 36 on the previous figures the department gave for Friday.
There has been a further three deaths (none outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 983.
None of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 52,175 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 414 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 34 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 29 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 93 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 6,867 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past eight months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 45 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise of one on the previous day.
Over the last week, 289 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 4,558 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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