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The North’s Department of Health in its daily Covid-19 bulletin on Thursday reported 13 more coronavirus deaths, taking Northern Ireland’s death toll from the pandemic to 1,792.
There were also 592 new positive cases of Covid-19 reported, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the North since the outbreak of the pandemic to 102,410.
In the past seven days there were 89 Covid-19 deaths in the North, which compares with 141 such deaths in the previous week.
There was a slight decrease in the number of patients receiving coronavirus treatment in Northern Ireland’s hospitals. Seven days ago 786 patients with Covid-19 were being treated; the figure is now 768. Hospital bed occupancy is at 92 per cent.
Intensive care units, however, remain very busy. A week ago 70 patients in the North were receiving intensive care treatment for Covid-19; the figure now is 67. A week ago 58 Covid-19 patients were on ventilators; now that figure has risen to 67.
Meanwhile, the Northern Ireland Executive, which was meeting on Thursday afternoon, was expected to sign off on a proposal from Minister for Education Peter Weir to keep most schools closed until March 8th. Schools had been due to reopen in mid-February.
Special schools are expected to continue to remain open during the lockdown.