NHS Highland region records 18 new positive tests for the Covid-19 coronavirus

EIGHTEEN new coronavirus infections have been detected across the NHS Highland area.

The region's cumulative number of cases rose from 1819 to 1837 when the latest daily update was published.

There were 1190 new cases of Covid-19 reported across Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Some 1025 people were receiving treatment for the virus in hospital last night ­– down 20 from the previous day.

And, of those, 56 people were in intensive care. This was down four on Tuesday's update.

But sadly there were a further 47 deaths among people who previously tested positive for the virus.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the north of Scotland, there were no new cases in NHS Orkney or NHS Eileanan Siar, but NHS Shetland detected one fresh infection, taking its tally to 78.

NHS Grampian had another 156 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, raising its overall total to 6736.

And NHS Tayside detected 99 infections, for a running tally of 7347.

Scotland has now had 115,566 confirmed cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.

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