Coronavirus: Thirty laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Derry and Strabane

As of 11.15 a.m. on Thursday, April 2, testing had resulted in 85 new positive cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the north to 774.

To date, 36 people who have tested positive in the north have sadly died.

The latest daily surveillance report shows that over the previous 24 hours there had been 85 new confirmed cases; and 449 more tests.

Six new deaths have sadly been confirmed since yesterday's daily report.

Thirty confirmed cases have been reported in Derry and Strabane compared with 226 in Belfast.

There have been 19 lab confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Causeway Coast and Glens area.

However, of the 6899 tests in the north sofar 677 have been conducted in the Western Trust, still the lowest number of tests in any health authority, compared with 2639 in the Belfast Trust, the highest number of tests.

The definition of a death associated with COVID-19 is an individual who has died within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test. Of 35 deaths with data, the median age was 79 years old of which 21 (60%) were female and 14 (40%) were male.

As of Thursday there have been 4221 confirmed cases in Ireland - 3447 in the south and 774 in the north.

One hundred and twenty-one people have now died from the illness in Ireland - 85 in the south and 36 in the north.

These totals for the country as a whole are expected to rise when the Health Protection Surveillance Centre in the south releases its daily data this evening.