The effects of the Covid-19 lockdown are well and truly being seen in the latest figures from the Department of Health on Wednesday. 

The February 3 report shows 504 people tested positive for the virus compared to 1,662 on January 3, more than three times higher. There have now been 105,225 positive cases across Northern Ireland.

The number of positive tests in the last seven days was 3,404 a fall from 11,810 back at the start of January.

Fermanagh and Omagh has recorded the lowest number of positive cases across all Council areas for the second day running with 20 and this bring the total to 5,354.

Across Northern Ireland, 11 more deaths were recorded relating to the virus increasing the death toll to 1,889. Fermanagh and Omagh had no deaths reported on Wednesday with the total number of deaths in the local area at 79.

Breaking down Fermanagh by postal district, from January 25-31 shows that BT92 had nine coronavirus-positive cases, BT74 had 30, BT94 had 7 and BT93 had 11 positive cases.

In the past week, there were 147 cases of Covid-19 recorded in the district.
Looking at the positive cases from the past week by age, there were 24 cases in people aged 19 and under; 41 in those aged between 20 and 39; 42 in those between 40 and 59; 27 in those between 60 and 79, and 13 aged 80 and over.

The past seven-day rate per 100k of the population in Fermanagh has decreased, with a rate of 125.8 per 100k recorded in the past seven days, in comparison to 180.6 per 100k in the week of January 20-26.

There are currently 701 in-patients with Covid-18 across Northern Ireland, with 77 inpatients in the Western Trust.

31 of these patients are in the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH). There have been 35 admissions into the Western Trust and 48 discharges in the past week.

There are currently 65 people in ICU with Covid-19 across Northern Ireland, two of those are in SWAH while 60 patients are on ventilators.

In Wednesday's report, SWAH was operating at 109.38 per cent bed capacity.
Across the care home sector, there are currently 106 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in homes across Northern Ireland.

There has been a decrease of 20 active outbreaks in the past seven days, with 28 outbreaks across 71 care homes in the Western Trust.