Coronavirus NI: Four further deaths confirmed bringing death toll to 1,124 as another 483 test positive for virus

Another four people have been confirmed as having died by the Department of Health with COVID-19.

By Gemma Murray
Sunday, 13th December 2020, 3:52 pm

This brings the death toll here to 1,124.

Another 483 people have tested positive for having the virus in the last 24 hours.

In the last seven days 3,219 people have tested positive in Northern Ireland, according to the dashboard.

There are currently 407 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in NI hospitals - 29 of which are fighting for their lives in ICU.

Meanwhile there are now 110 active Care Home outbreaks of COVID-19.

READ - Coronavirus NI: Nine more deaths with Coronavirus brings total to 1,120 - 476 new infections - 409 in our hospitals with COVID-19

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