THE Department of Health has reported a further 1,071 new Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the past 24 hours.
That’s a fall of 233 new cases on figures given yesterday for Tuesday.
There have been a further five deaths (one outside the current reporting period), bringing the Department of Health’s total number of deaths from the virus (mostly in hospital settings) to 2,483.
None of these latest deaths were recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 9,075 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 81 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a fall of 19 on figures given on yesterday for Tuesday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 723 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 23,873 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 477.9 cases per 100,000, the fifth highest of all 11 council districts in the North of Ireland.
The Department has now recorded a total of 162 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 425 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 38 patients being treated in intensive care with 33 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 15.65 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 47 patients with Coronavirus.
Five of those patients are currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s 50 per cent of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
The hospital is currently running at 9.28 per cent above capacity.
A total of 112 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 795 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
A total of 23 out of 70 residential care homes in the Western Trust area are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
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