Coronavirus: 77 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Derry and Strabane

As of 12.02 p.m. on Friday, April 10, testing had resulted in 112 new positive cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the north to 1589.

To date, 92 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 112 new confirmed cases; and 951 more tests.

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

Seventy-seven confirmed cases have been reported in Derry and Strabane compared with between 514 in Belfast.

There have been 63 lab confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Causeway Coast and Glens area.

However, of the 11006 tests in the north sofar 1199 have been conducted in the Western Trust, still the lowest number of tests in any health authority, compared with 3966 in the Belfast Trust, the highest number of tests.

In reference to reporting issues that had resulted in Western Trust data not being included in recent bulletins the PHA said: "Tests were initially conducted by the Regional Virology Laboratory (RVL) Belfast for all of Northern Ireland.

"On 30/03/2020, laboratory testing data from the NHSCT (testing started 23/03/2020) and from the SHSCT (testing started 28/03/2020) was added.

"On 10/04/2020, laboratory testing data from the WHSCT (testing started 03/04/2020) was added. This data is accurate at the time of the report but due to processing times, testing numbers may change (e.g. indeterminate tests may be retested with a positive/negative result)."

There have now been 8163 confirmed cases in Ireland - 6574 in the south and 1589 in the north.

Three hundred and fifty-five people have now died from the illness in Ireland - 263 in the south, 92 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.

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