THE Department of Health has announced a further 550 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 128 cases on the previous day.
There have been a further 16 deaths (five outside the current reporting period) from the deadly virus bringing the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, to 1,763.
Sadly, one of these deaths has been recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 4,583 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 17 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours, a slight rise of two on figures for Sunday.
Within the past week there have been a further 197 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 10,576 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 121 coronavirus deaths within the Derry and Strabane council area to date.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 95 per cent.
There are currently 819 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 68 patients currently in intensive care and 48 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 133 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 484 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
