THE Department of Health has announced a further 1,748 new Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the past 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 16 on figures given yesterday for Sunday.
There have been a further seven deaths (three outside the current reporting period), bringing the Department of Health’s total number of deaths from the virus (mostly in hospital settings) to 2,424.
None of these latest deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 10,316 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 138 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a fall of 76 on figures given on yesterday for Sunday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 1,087 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 22,809 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 fallen to 718.5 cases per 100,000, the second highest of all 11 council districts in the North of Ireland.
The Department has recorded a total of 158 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 up to 106 per cent.
There are currently 461 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 45 patients being treated in intensive care with 35 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 15.34 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 63 patients with Coronavirus.
Seven of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s almost 60 per cent of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
The hospital is currently running at 5.60 per cent above capacity.
A total of 131 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 759 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
A total of 25 out of 70 residential care homes in the Western Trust area are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
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