There were 14 positive Covid-19 cases reported in Fermanagh and Omagh Council area on the Department of Health's daily update today, Thursday.

It is the third consecutive day the area has had the lowest number of positive cases across all Council's in Northern Ireland and brings the total to 5,368.

Across Northern Ireland, 412 positive cases were identified with the total now at 105,637. 

Death related to the virus in Northern Ireland increased by 10 to 1,899. Four of those occurred in the last 24 hours, while 6 were recorded outside the 24 reporting period. None of the deaths were in Fermanagh and Omagh which has the lowest deat toll of 79.

Breaking down Fermanagh by postal district, from January 25-31 shows that BT92 had nine coronavirus-positive cases, BT74 had 30, BT94 had 7 and BT93 had 11 positive cases.

In the past week, there were 136 cases of Covid-19 recorded in the district.
Looking at the positive cases from the past week by age, there were 25 cases in people aged 19 and under; 33 in those aged between 20 and 39; 42 in those between 40 and 59; 24 in those between 60 and 79, and 12 aged 80 and over.

Impartial Reporter:

The past seven-day rate per 100k of the population in Fermanagh has decreased, with a rate of 116.4 per 100k recorded in the past seven days, in comparison to 169.5 per 100k in the week of January 21-27.

There are currently 671 in-patients with Covid-19 across Northern Ireland, with 71 inpatients in the Western Trust.

30 of these patients are in the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH). There have been 31 admissions into the Western Trust and 47 discharges in the past week.

There are currently 68 people in ICU with Covid-19 across Northern Ireland, two of those are in SWAH while 63 patients are on ventilators.

SWAH is the only hospital was operating above capacity at 111.88 per cent bed capacity.

Across the care home sector, there are currently 99 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in homes across Northern Ireland.

There has been a decrease of 27 active outbreaks in the past seven days, with 28 outbreaks across 71 care homes in the Western Trust.

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