Five more patients - all under 70 - admitted to over capacity Altnagelvin with coronavirus

Four men - three aged 60 to 69 and one aged 50 to 59 - and one woman, aged 50 to 59, were admitted.

In total 80 people were being treated as confirmed coronavirus inpatients in Western Trust hospitals at midnight on Thursday.

Altnagelvin is now 0.30 per cent over capacity, according to the Department of Health.

The South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen is running at exactly full occupancy.

Man, aged over 80, dies after testing positive with COVID-19 in Derry/Strabane bringing total death toll to 104In terms of general occupancy 18.60 per cent of beds at Altnagelvin are 'COVID-19 occupied', 78.05 per cent are 'other occupied' and the hospital is 0.30 per cent over capacity: 3.35 per cent are 'awaiting admission' according to the latest data.

Four of eleven (36.36%) ICU beds at Altnagelvin are being used to treat COVID-19 patients; six (54.55%) are occupied by patients with other conditions. One ICU bed (9.09%) is free.

Six ICU patients in total are being ventilated - one is a COVID-19 patient and five are non-COVID-19 patients.