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Covid-19: Two more deaths, nine additional cases

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There have been two further deaths from Covid-19 reported here and nine additional cases, the Department of Health has confirmed.

Two more coronavirus-related deaths were notified in Northern Ireland, bringing the overall total to 554. Another four people tested positive, with the number of confirmed cases of the virus now at 5,747.

Meanwhile excess deaths in Ireland from March to June were "substantially" less than the officially reported Covid-19 figures, analysis from the Health Information and Quality Authority has found.

HIQA said this could be due to the inclusion within official figures of people who were infected with coronavirus but whose cause of death may have been predominantly due to other factors.

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