THE Department of Health has announced a further 1,320 new Coronavirus cases in the North of Ireland in the past 24 hours.
That’s a rise of 242 new cases on figures given yesterday for Monday.
There have been a further two deaths (none outside the current reporting period), bringing the Department of Health’s total number of deaths from the virus (mostly in hospital settings) to 2,554.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths in the last 24 hours was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
In the past week, the Department has recorded 7,663 new cases of Coronavirus.
There has been a further 102 positive cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a rise of 31 on numbers given yesterday for Monday.
Over the past seven days there have been a further 578 COVID-19 cases in the Derry and Strabane area.
This means that since the pandemic started in March there have now been 24,993 positive cases within the council boundary.
The rate of infection within the Derry and Strabane Council area has risen slighlty to 382.1 cases per 100,000, now the second lowest of all 11 council districts in the North of Ireland.
The Department has now recorded a total of 168 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 105 per cent.
There are currently 346 patients in hospitals across the North with Coronavirus.
There are 29 patients being treated in intensive care with 27 patients on ventilators.
The Western Trust reports that 10.75 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are COVID-19 occupied with staff treating 36 patients with Coronavirus.
One of these patients is currently being treated in Altnagelvin’s ICU for COVID-19 – that’s 8.33 per cent of its ICU beds treating patients with the deadly virus.
The hospital is currently running at 2.99 per cent over capacity with beds.
A total of 76 care homes are now dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak with a further 853 concluded Coronavirus outbreaks in care homes.
A total of 21 out of 69 residential care homes in the Western Trust area are still dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
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