Covid-19: Care home residents account for 34% of deaths in North Department records 73 new cases while Nisra statistics show three fatalities in last week of May
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Care home residents account for some 34 per cent of fatalities linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, statistics agency Nisra has said. File photograph: The Irish Times.
No further coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded by Northern Ireland’s Department of Health in the last 24-hour reporting period.
There were another 73 confirmed cases of the virus recorded.
On Friday morning there were 19 confirmed Covid-19 inpatients in hospital, one of whom was in intensive care.
The Northern Ireland Department of Health has this morning announced that the coronavirus vaccine will now be available for all adults aged over 18, becoming the first part of the UK to do so.
The move comes following a successful vaccine roll out across the wider UK. To date, 70 per cent of adults in Northern Ireland have received a first dose of the vaccine, whilst a reported 40 per cent have received both and are fully vaccinated.
This announcement means that most students at universities and colleges across Northern Ireland will now be eligible for the vaccine, if they have not already received it.
436 new cases of Covid confirmed by Dept of Health HSE confirms that 12 people have died of Covid-19 since the cyber attack
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The Department of Health said there were 39 cases in ICU and 101 in hospital.
Daily case numbers may change due to future data review, validation and update, the Department stressed.
Eight people have died as a result of Covid-19 in the last 12 days, the HSE has confirmed.
As a result of the recent cyberattack on the HSE’s systems, there had been no new reports of Covid-19 deaths since Friday, May 14th, when the State’s total death toll stood at 4,941.