Covid-19: Twenty additional deaths, 1,500 new cases in North

ANOTHER 20 Covid-19 related deaths have been reported in Northern Ireland today.

The region’s death toll from the coronavirus is now 1,434.

A further 1,500 new cases were confirmed today and there have now been 11,075 positive cases in the last seven days.

All 20 fatalities happened in the last 24 hours.

There are 641 patients in Northern Ireland hospitals receiving treatment for Covid-19, 45 of whom are in intensive care settings.