A further 12 Covid-19 related deaths have been recorded by the Department of Health, bringing the total number of deaths in Northern Ireland to 902.

None of these deaths were recorded in the Fermangh and Omagh District Council area, where 25 deaths have been reported. The last of those was on Saturday, November 14.

Across Northern Ireland, 487 people tested positive for the virus, 23 of those in the local Council area. A total of 48,716 have tested positive in Northern Ireland, with 1,945 of these in Fermanagh and Omagh.

Breaking down positive cases by postcode in Fermanagh, from November 9-15, there were 18 cases in BT93; 88 cases in BT92; 53 positive cases in BT94; and 20 cases in BT74. 

BT92 has the third highest rate per 100k of population in Northern Ireland of 511.9 per 100k.

There have been 197 positive cases in the Council area in the last seven days compared to 194 in the previous week from November 5-11. Some 43 of those were aged 19 and under; 74 were aged between 20 and 39; 51 were aged between 40 and 59; 22 were aged between 60 and 79, and 7 were aged 80 and over.

The seven-day incident rate for positive cases per 100k people in Fermanagh and Omagh now stands at 168.6 per 100k, for the week of November 12-18 – the previous week’s rate stood at 166.1.

There are currently 66 in-patients across the Western Trust, 18 of those are in the SWAH. While there have been 34 admissions and 46 discharges in the past seven days in Western Trust hospitals.

Across the five Trusts, there are 456 in-patients in hospital with the virus. Some 41 people are on Covid ICU beds across Northern Ireland, none of those are in the SWAH. There are 32 Covid-19 patients on ventilators across Northern Ireland.

The entire Health Trust is at 100 per cent of its bed occupancy capacity according to Thursday's update from the department with SWAH currently 2.38 per cent over capacity.

Across Northern Ireland there have been 166 confirmed Covid outbreaks in care homes, with a further three suspected outbreaks.