THE Department of Health has announced a further 234 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 58 cases on the previous day.
There have been a further four deaths (none outside the current reporting period) from the deadly virus bringing the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, to 2,000.
None of these latest deaths have been recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 2,095 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 18 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours, a rise of nine on figures reported for Thursday.
Within the past week there have been a further 122 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 10,962 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 129 coronavirus deaths within the Derry and Strabane council area to date – the third lowest out of all 11 councils in the North of Ireland.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now up to 92 per cent.
There are currently 477 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 59 patients currently in intensive care and 49 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 79 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 555 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
