There have been 26 deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Eire within the final seven days, the most recent replace from by the Northern Eire Statistics and Analysis Company (Nisra) has revealed.
This marks the fourth consecutive week the place the variety of registered Covid-linked deaths has risen in Northern Eire.
The determine takes the entire variety of Covid-linked deaths in Northern Eire to 4,738 recorded by the company, which information the information in a different way to different our bodies such because the Workplace of Nationwide Statistics.
Nisra attracts from totally different knowledge sources, there their statistics are at all times increased than the Division of Well being's whole because it gives a broader image of the affect of Covid-19.
The division's statistics focus totally on hospital deaths and embrace solely individuals who have examined optimistic for the virus.
The Nisra determine consists of 3,303 deaths in hospital, 993 in care houses and 442 at residential addresses, hospices or different areas.
In response to their figures, Covid-19 was additionally talked about on the dying certificates of 27 of the 249 deaths registered within the week to July 15.
Nonetheless, in Northern Eire, infections are lowering having gone right down to an estimated 88,400 individuals, or one in 20, from 107,600, or one in 17 within the week ending July 13.
In the remainder of the UK, Covid-19 stays prevalent in Scotland the place over 340,000 are estimated to have had the virus.
Whereas Wales has seen infections degree off at 183,200, or one in 17 individuals, broadly unchanged on 183,500 within the earlier week, which was additionally one in 17.
In England, 3.1 million individuals had been prone to have had the virus within the week to July 13, the equal of round one in 17.
These aged 75 and over accounted for 73.8% of the Covid-related deaths registered between March 19, 2020 and July 15 this yr.