Six more people with Covid-19 have died, bringing the death toll to 2,021.
An additional 342 people have tested positive in the most recent 24-hour reporting period with Belfast City Council area (73), Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon (55) and Mid Ulster (48) accounting for half of those new cases.
30,581 people have been tested in the rolling seven-day period and 2,041 tested positive.
Bed occupancy in the north's hospitals is at 94%. However, the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast is operating over capacity.
There are 51 people with coronavirus in ICU and 42 of them are being ventilated. There are 418 in-patients with Covid-19.
The rolling seven-day transmission rate (February 11-17) has dropped to 108.5 per 100,000 of the population from 133.5 in the previous seven-day period. Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon has the highest rate (197.5) and Fermanagh and Omagh has the lowest (51.4).
In the same seven-day period, the highest number of new cases was among the 20-39 age group with 794 people testing positive; followed by the 40-59 group (660). The fewest new cases were recorded in the 80 and over age group (90). In the same period, there were 45 deaths.
Coronavirus clusters are present in 49, down from 79 on Monday February 15.
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The Department of Health has also confirmed that to date 457,581 vaccines have been administered, of which 427,569 were first doses and 30,012 were second doses.
