The effects of the Covid-19 lockdown are well and truly being seen in the latest figures from the Department of Health on Wednesday. The February 3 report shows 504 people tested positive for the virus compared to 1,662 on January 3, more than three times higher. There have now been 105,225 positive cases across Northern Ireland. The number of positive tests in the last seven days was 3,404 a fall from 11,810 back at the start of January. Fermanagh and Omagh has recorded the lowest number of positive cases across all Council areas for the second day running with 20 and this bring the total to 5,354. Across Northern Ireland, 11 more deaths were recorded relating to the virus increasing the death toll to 1,889. Fermanagh and Omagh had no deaths reported on Wednesday with the total number of deaths in the local area at 79.
IF local people do not take up the offer of the Covid-19 vaccine in sufficient numbers, then we will be left living with the significant consequences of the virus for at least two to three years, a frontline health care worker has warned.
Sister Valerie Topping, who manages one of the Covid wards at the South West Acute Hospital, said that she hoped everyone gives serious thought to taking the vaccine, when it is offered to them.
She said, “Unlike the seasonal flu vaccine, which ‘at risk’ people take to keep themselves well, the Covid vaccine is not just about protecting yourself, it is about protecting everyone; even people we may never meet. My worry is that if insufficient numbers of the population agree to take it, then we will be left living with significant consequences of Covid-19 over at least the next two to three years.
There were another three death related to Covid-19 reported by the Department of Health today (Tuesday), bringing the death toll here to 79. The deaths come as the area saw only seven positive cases recorded in the last 24 hours, the fewest in Northern Ireland, the first time it has been in single figures since October 1. There have now been 5,334 positive cases in the district. Despite the fall in positive cases, half of the ICU beds (3) at SWAH are Covid occupied. There are currently 66 people in ICU with Covid-19 across Northern Ireland, with 58 patients on ventilators. 17 more people have died from the virus and 447 individuals tested positive across Northern Ireland according to today s update. There are now 1,878 death and 104,721 positive cases reported in Northern Ireland.
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A hero of the Enniskillen Remembrance Day bomb died from Covid-19 while listening to music from the silver band he performed with on the day of the IRA atrocity.