THE Department of Health has announced a further 99 cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 20 on figures given yesterday for Thursday.
There has been two further deaths from the deadly virus with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, now at 2,135.
These latest deaths were not reported in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 796 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 24 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area in the past 24 hours, a fall of two on the previous day.
Within the past week there have been a further 162 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area – the highest number of new cases in any of the 11 council’s here.
That means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 11,985 positive cases within the council boundary – the fourth highest among all 11 councils in the North.
The rate of infection within the Derry and Strabane council area is now up to 107.5 cases per 100,000, the highest in the North of Ireland.
The Department has recorded a total of 135 coronavirus deaths within the Derry and Strabane council area to date – the third lowest out of all councils here.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now at 97 per cent.
There currently 70 patients in hospital with Coronavirus, eight of whom are being treated in intensive care with five patients on ventilators.
Four care homes are now dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak with a further 647 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
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