THE Department of Health has reported a further 1,320 Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the last 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 165 cases on figures given yesterday for Saturday.
There has been nine further deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours with the death toll, mostly in hospitals across the North, now at 2,311.
Sadly, one of these latest nine deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 11,994 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 214 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a fall of 12 on figures given last Friday for Thursday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 1,475 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 20,340 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 975.0 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 152 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 100 per cent.
There are currently 352 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 43 patients being treated in intensive care with 28 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 11.8 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 34 patients with Coronavirus.
Six of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s two thirds of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
A total of 132 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 709 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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