THE Department of Health has announced a further 397 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 22 on the previous figures the department gave for Saturday.
There has been a further nine deaths (none outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 1,059.
None of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 55,444 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 416 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 29 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 21 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now up to 99 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 7,198 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past eight months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 32 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, the same number for the previous day.
Over the last week, 296 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 4,777 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.
Three people have returned indeterminate test results.
The Department of Health has now recorded 79 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 115 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus at present with 346 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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