THE Department of Health has announced a further 159 more cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 22 cases on figures given yesterday for Thursday.
There has been no further death from the deadly virus with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, now remaining at 2,103.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 1,085 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 fall of four on the previous day.
Within the past week there have been a further 107 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,408 positive cases within the council boundary.
The Department has now recorded a total of 134 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 98 per cent.
There are currently 156 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, with 18 patients currently in intensive care and 16 patients who are on ventilators.
A total of eight care homes are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 634 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
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