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Four further cases of Covid-19 coronavirus recorded in the NHS Highland health board area


By Philip Murray

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FOUR new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland health board area.

The region’s cumulative number of confirmed infections rose from 5149 to 5153 when the latest daily figures were released on Thursday.

Some 283 new cases of Covid-19 were reported across Scotland when the latest figures were released. This was up on recent daily updates, but Public Health Scotland said the rise was due to the addition of a backlog of test results from yesterday, rather than any jump in infections in the most recent 24 hour period.

A “data flow issue” at UK government testing sites had resulted in a lower than expected total when yesterday’s update was released.

And only 0.9 per cent of the most recent tests were positive for the virus – in line with recent trends of around one per cent.

Fifty-eight people were being treated for Covid-19 in Scotland’s hospitals last night – a fall of 11 from Wednesday.

Of those, 11 were in intensive care. This was down two from the previous update.

And no new deaths were reported among those people who tested positive for the virus in the past 28 days.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the north of Scotland, there were again no new infections in NHS Shetland, NHS Orkney and NHS Eileanan Siar.

There were 36 fresh positive tests across NHS Grampian, for a running total of 15,104.

And a dozen new cases were confirmed in NHS Tayside, which saw its overall tally rise to 14,712.

There have now been 227,012 known coronavirus infections across Scotland since the beginning of the pandemic.

More than 2.86 million Scots have now received their first Covid-19 vaccination injection, while over 1.4 million have had their second jag.

Related news: No new cases across NHS Highland for first time in more than eight months


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