BBC News
By Eunan McConville
Northern Ireland is no different.
The number of positive Covid cases has been rising and the Delta variant is now the dominant form of the virus in Northern Ireland.
Crucially though, hospital inpatient numbers remain relatively low; and the death rate is very low indeed - about one death every two weeks.
That s thanks to the vaccine.
Cases
Over the past week, about one in every 15 people tested for the virus in Northern Ireland got a positive result.
That s a positivity rate of about 6.6%.
It indicates that case numbers are on the increase - they have been for about three weeks.
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