Positive cases of Covid-19 continue to rise in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area as the Department of Health's daily update shows there were 69 new cases in the last 24 hours. It brings the total number of positive cases to 1,174 in the district.

In the last seven days there have been 286 positive cases in the Council area. 44 of those were aged 19 and under; 97 aged between 20 and 39; 91 between the ages of 40 and 59; 38 aged between 60 and 79 and 16 aged 80 and over.

Impartial Reporter:

The seven-day incident rate for positives case per 100k people has risen slightly in Fermanagh and Omagh, and now stands at 244.8 per 100k people for the week of October 15-21 – the previous week’s rate stood at 243.1.

The BT93 postcode area, which covers a large part of Fermanagh, is the least affected area in Northern Ireland according to the department's update with a rate of 35.5 per 100k for the last seven days. Other postcodes in Fermanagh include BT74 which has a rate of 148.2 per 100k; BT92 is 186.2 per 100k while BT94 is 136.2 per 100k.

Impartial Reporter:

Across Northern Ireland there were 1,252 positive individuals which brings the total number of positive cases in the country to 32,286 with 6,893 of those in the last seven days.

There were five deaths recorded by the department in the last 24 hours bringing the total to 639. None of these were recorded in Fermanagh and Omagh.

There are currently 9 Covid-19 in-patients in the SWAH. There are 68 in-patients across the Western Trust.

There have been 69 admissions to the Trust, and 59 discharges in the past seven days.

There are 296 in-patients in hospital across Northern Ireland with the virus. Some 34 people are on Covid ICU beds across Northern Ireland. There are 25 Covid-19 patients on ventilators across Northern Ireland.

There are currently 92 confirmed nursing home outbreaks, with 11 suspected care home outbreaks across NI.