22 Covid-related deaths in County Derry last week as rate falls again
The rate per 100,000 of population is down for the second week in a row.
There have been 22 Covid-related deaths in County Derry's three local government districts over the last seven days.
Ten Covid-related deaths were recorded in Mid Ulster, while there were a further nine in Causeway Coast and Glens and three in Derry and Strabane.
The figure marks an increase in the previous week's death toll of 16.
Numbers fell across all the but three of the county's postal areas (Limavady, Coleraine and Garvagh), while Portstewart recorded exactly the same amount of cases (23).
The county's overall figure of 574.8 is still above the overall NI figure of 529.3, but the percentage of people testing positive for the virus has reduced again to 13.1%.
The number of Covid inpatients in the area's hospitals also fell over the last week, from 115 to 112.
Altnagelvin recorded an increase of seven in inpatient numbers, but a fall of seven was recorded in Causeway and a further reduction of three in Antrim Area Hospital.
68% of the population (1,291,010) have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 1,171,130 (62%) have received both doses.