COVID-19 occupancy at Altnagelvin in Derry at 13.90%

A woman in her 40s and two men - one in his 50s and one aged over 80 - were admitted to the Derry hospital on Tuesday.

At midnight on Tuesday 51 people were being treated as coronavirus inpatients across all Western Trust hospitals.

Derry positivity rate rises to just under 25%

Seven (77.78%) out of nine ICU beds at Altnagelvin were being used to treat a COVID-19 patient; two ICU beds (22.22%) were occupied by patient with other conditions. No beds were free.

Six ICU patients in total were being ventilated - five were COVID-19 patients.

In terms of general occupancy 13.90% of beds at Altnagelvin were ‘COVID-19 occupied’, 79.76% were ‘other occupied’ and the hospital had 2.11% capacity left in the system; 4.23% were ‘awaiting admission.’