CORONAVIRUS: 11 further deaths reported in NI in last 24 hours

Eight of the deaths occurred within the last 24 hour reporting period with three happening outside this period. None of the deaths were in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area which is currently the least affected area with 24 deaths.

42 people tested positive for the virus in the Council area with the total number of positive tests rising to 1,785. 

Across Northern Ireland 607 individuals tested positive making the number of people who have tested positive now at 45,848.

Breaking down positive cases by postcode in Fermanagh, from November 3-9, there were 14 cases in BT93; 38 cases in BT92; 22 positive cases in BT94; and 21 cases in BT74. 

There have been 212 positive cases in the Council area in the last seven days compared to 181 in the previous week from October 30 to November 5. Some 37 of those were aged 19 and under; 67 were aged between 20 and 39; 64 were aged between 40 and 59; 41 were aged between 60 and 79, and 3 were aged 80 and over.

The seven-day incident rate for positive cases per 100k people in Fermanagh and Omagh now stands at 181.5 per 100k, for the week of November 6-12 – the previous week’s rate stood at 154.9.

There are currently 73 in-patients across the Western Trust, with 17 of these in the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH). While there have been 43 admissions and 50 discharges in the past seven days in Western Trust hospitals.

Across the five Trusts, there are 443 in-patients in hospital with the virus. Some 44 people are on Covid ICU beds across Northern Ireland, none of those are in the SWAH. There are 34 Covid-19 patients on ventilators across Northern Ireland.

As of today's report, the current available bed occupancy at the SWAH was operating above 100 per cent. Bed occupancy across all hospitals was at 101 per cent capacity.

There are currently 147 confirmed nursing home outbreaks, with 3 suspected care home outbreaks across Northern Ireland.