THE Department of Health has announced six further Covid-19-related deaths in the past 24 hours in the North of Ireland.
Deaths are measured by recording those who died within 28 days of receiving a positive result in a test for Coronavirus.
The total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in North of Ireland recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is at 3,048.
Sadly, one of these latest deaths was recorded in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
Today’s data from the Department of Health shows there has been a further 4,081 positive cases of Coronavirus in the North of Ireland, a rise of 786 on figures given yesterday for Sunday.
It includes cases confirmed from samples taken in previous days, not necessarily just in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
As of today, the number of positive cases confirmed in the past seven days was 24,348.
The statistics show that in the past 24 hours there has been a further 216 Covid-19 cases in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area, a rise of 18 on figures yesterday for Sunday.
Over the past seven days, there were 1,636 cases recorded in the Derry and Strabane Council area.
The infection rates within Derry and Strabane is now the third lowest of all 11 councils in the North of Ireland with 1,082.7 cases per 100,000.
Bed occupancy across all hospitals is now up to 105 per cent.
The Department of Health now records that 195 people (mostly in hospitals) have died from Coronavirus in the Derry City and Strabane Council area.
There are currently 412 patients with Covid-19 in hospital here.
There are 28 patients with Covid-19 being treated in intensive care units, with 22 people on ventilators.
There are 44 people being treated in Altnagelvin Hospital with Coronavirus with five people in intensive care.
The figures show that 11.78 per cent of beds in Altnagelvin Hospital are occupied by people with Coronavirus and it is running at 2.30 per cent over capacity for beds.
The Department of Health reports that 215 care homes in the North of Ireland are dealing with an outbreak of Coronavirus, with 1,056 closed cases of Covid-19 in care homes here.
In the Western Trust area, 41 of its 68 care homes are dealing with a Coronavirus outbreak.
A total of 3,626,762 vaccines for Covid-19 had been administered in the North of Ireland as of Tuesday.
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