By Peter Moor
For the 22nd day running, no new COVID-19 deaths were announced by the Department of Health here.
The department's death toll therefore remains at 556.
The data from the Department of Health dashboard also revealed 8 more people tested positive for the virus here since yesterday.
There have now been 5,996 positive lab tests for COVID-19 in Northern Ireland.
The figures also show five care homes currently have confirmed outbreaks of COVID-19.
Six care homes have suspected outbreaks and 171 homes have closed outbreaks of the virus.
The figures also provide detail of capacity in Northern Ireland's hospitals.
It revealed that out of Northern Ireland's 103 intensive care unit beds, two are now occupied by a patient with COVID-19.
79 of the beds are taken up by non COVID-19 related patients, providing 22 spare ICU beds.
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