No COVID-19 patients in ICU in Derry; 5.39% bed capacity available at Derry hospital

There were no new SARS-CoV-2 admission at Altnagelvin over the weekend.

At midnight on Sunday just eight people were being treated as coronavirus inpatients across all Western Trust hospitals.

COVID-19 death tally in Derry remains at 195, according to PHA weekly figures

No ICU beds at Altnagelvin were being used to treat a COVID-19 patient; five of ten ICU beds (50%) were occupied by patients with other conditions and five (50%) were free.

Five ICU patients in total were being ventilated - all were non-COVID-19 patients.

Derry COVID-19 positivity rises week-on-week to 7.3% and is highest in the north

In terms of general occupancy 1.50% of beds at Altnagelvin were ‘COVID-19 occupied’, 90.72% were ‘other occupied’ and there was 5.39% capacity left in the hospital system; 2.40% were ‘awaiting admission.’

It is now over a month since a patient died after testing positive for COVID-19 in Derry/Strabane. In total 136 people have died with COVID-19 in Derry/Strabane since the pandemic began.