THE Department of Health has reported a further 1,345 Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 219 cases on figures given yesterday for Monday.
There has been 11 further deaths (one outside the current reporting period) from the virus in the past 24 hours with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, now at 2,269.
Sadly, one of these latest 11 deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 9,974 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 163 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a fall of 32 on figures given yesterday for Monday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 1,105 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 19,239 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 730.4 cases per 100,000, the second highest of all 11 council districts in the North of Ireland.
The Department has now recorded a total of 150 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 104 per cent.
There are currently 394 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 49 patients being treated in intensive care with 35 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 10.25 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 32 patients with Coronavirus.
Five of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s half of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
A total of 133 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 693 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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