THE Department of Health has announced a further 1,687 new Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the past 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 144 on figures given yesterday for Wednesday.
There have been a further six deaths (two outside the current reporting period), bringing the Department of Health’s total number of deaths from the virus (mostly in hospital settings) to 2,444.
None of these latest deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 10,475 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 162 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a fall of four on figures given yesterday for Wednesday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 1,091 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 23,289 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 slightly to 721.2 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 159 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 461 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 43 patients being treated in intensive care with 35 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 18.53 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 59 patients with Coronavirus.
Seven of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s 70 per cent of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
The hospital is currently running at 0.59 per cent above capacity.
A total of 119 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 778 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
A total of 26 out of 70 residential care homes in the Western Trust area are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
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