There have been nine further Covid-19-linked deaths in Northern Ireland, including a male aged 19 or under who is the youngest person to die in the north after contracting the virus.
Department of Health statistics revealed the young person died in the Derry and Strabane area.
The death toll has now risen to 680 with hospitals now at 103 per cent occupancy.
At 9am on October 27, there were 2,979 occupied beds, some 76 over the 2,903 capacity.
A further 221 patients were waiting to be admitted.
There are currently 445 hospital patients who have tested positive for coronavirus.
There are 44 patients in intensive care, 37 of whom have been ventilated.
Of all ICU beds across the north, 13 are currently unoccupied.
A further 840 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections since the pandemic began to 36,394.
In care homes, there are 100 confirmed outbreaks and 12 suspected outbreaks.
The latest figures were released after the head of the largest nurses' union said nursing staff are under severe pressure, unlike anything they experienced during the first wave of the pandemic.
Pat Cullen, Director of the Royal College of Nursing in Northern Ireland, said nurses are "currently under immense pressure in all areas".
"As we enter a second wave, we are facing a severe shortage of staff which is compounded by the number of nurses isolating or affected by Covid-19", she said.
“This is a very worrying situation and has created pressure we did not have the first time around.
A senior doctor claimed this week has been the "worst in the NHS in living memory".
Dr Tom Black, chairman of the British Medical Association's Northern Ireland Council, said hospitals are being hit with a "triple whammy" of rising numbers of Covid-19 cases, lack of available staff and winter pressures.
However, the BBC has reported there has been a 49 per cent drop in Covid cases in the Derry and Strabane Council area, one of the worst-hit parts of the UK recently.
The drop in positive tests comes three weeks after further restrictions on movement were put into place in the area aiming at slowing the spread of the virus.
The Stormont executive is set to meet tomorrow.
Among the topics under discussion will be the planned return of schools on Monday as well as relief grants for taxi drivers.
