THE Department of Health has announced a further 225 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 38 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 2,041.
None of these latest deaths has been recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 1,929 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 13 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours, a a slight rise of two on figures reported for Sunday.
Within the past week there have been a further 109 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,081 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 130 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 99 per cent.
There are currently 376 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 48 patients currently in intensive care and 39 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 46 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak – a rise of two in the past 24 hours – with a further 591 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
