THE Department of Health has announced a further 787 positive cases for Coronavirus in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 348 cases the department reported yesterday for Monday.
There has been a further 21 deaths (nine outside the current reporting period), with the department’s total number of deaths, mostly in hospitals, now at 1,240.
Sadly, two of these latest deaths was reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
A total of 63,723 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 451 people are in hospital with the deadly virus.
A total of 31 patients are in intensive care units with confirmed Coronavirus, 22 of whom are on ventilators.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is still at 100 per cent.
In the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a total of 7,871 people have tested positive for Coronavirus in the past eight months.
In the past 24 hours, a further 84 people in Derry and Strabane have returned a positive test, a rise 48 on the previous days figures.
Over the last week, 344 people within the council boundary have contracted the virus.
The positive test rate in the council area is now at 5,224 per 100,000 of population, according to the latest figures.
This is the highest of any of the 11 councils in the North of Ireland.
Four people have returned indeterminate test results.
The Department of Health has recorded 90 deaths in hospitals in the Derry City and Strabane District Council since the pandemic broke out here in March.
A total of 86 care homes are dealing with outbreaks of the virus at present with 413 closed outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes.
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