The Department of Health's daily update has recorded 26 Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland, bringing the total to 1,559. 

One of these deaths occurred in Fermanagh and Omagh where the total number currently stands at 59.

There have 121 deaths in the last 7 days compared to 86 for the previous seven days. 

Positive cases continue to remain high with a further 1,052 reported with the total now at 93,834. There has been a drop in the number of positive tests in the last seven days (7,590) compared to 11,361 for the previous seven days.

The total in Fermanagh and Omagh is now 4,806 as 60 people tested positive in the last 24 hours.

Breaking down Fermanagh by postal district from January 4-10, 2021 shows BT92 had 90 positive cases, BT74 had 86, BT94 had 58 positive cases and BT93 has 55 positive cases.

Fermanagh and Omagh currently has a seven day per 100k rate of 397.2 compared to 502.4 for the seven days previous from January 1-7  . The number of positive cases in the district in the past seven days is 464  compared to 587  from January 1-6.

Breaking down cases by age there were 43 cases in people aged 19 and under; 165  between 20 and 39; 136  between 40 and 59; 74 between 60 and 79 and 46 aged 80 and over.

There are currently 116 Covid-19 in-patients in the Western Trust, with 47 of those at the SWAH. There have been 69 admissions and 55 discharges in the past seven days.

Across the Trusts, there are currently 840 Covid in-patients. The number of ICU Covid-occupied beds stands at 63 with two of those at the SWAH. 47 Covid patients are currently on ventilators.

Bed capacity across Northern Ireland’s hospitals is at 97 percent with the South West Acute Hospital operating at 102.34 percent.

Confirmed care home outbreaks are currently 139  at with 28 outbreaks across homes in the Western Trust. The Western Trust has the largest proportion of care homes with an outbreak in that region with 39 per cent.