THE Department of Health has announced a further 138 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of two cases figures given for Saturday.
There have been a further two deaths (one outside the current reporting period) from the deadly virus bringing the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, to 2,057.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 1,551 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further nine positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council in the past 24 hours.
Within the past week there have been a further 118 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,177 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 132 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 at 91 per cent.
There are currently 302 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 34 patients currently in intensive care and 29 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of 26 care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 612 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
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