THE Department of Health has reported a further 1,306 Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 12 cases on figures given yesterday for Saturday.
There has been three further deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, now at 2,251.
None of these latest deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 9,901 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 157 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a rise of four on figures given on Friday for Thursday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 1,056 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 18,881 positive cases within the council boundary – the third highest among all 11 councils in the North.
The rate of infection within the Derry and Strabane Council area has risen to 698.0 cases per 100,000, the highest of all 11 council districts in the North of Ireland.
The Department has now recorded a total of 148 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 101 per cent.
There are currently 334 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 44 patients being treated in intensive care with 32 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 13.33 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are treating patients with Coronavirus.
Six of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s over half of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
A total of 123 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 692 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
Sixteen out of 70 residential care homes in the Western Trust area are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
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