Eleven new positive tests for Covid-19 coronavirus recorded in the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours
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ELEVEN new positive tests for Covid-19 were recorded across the NHS Highland health board in the past day, Scottish Government figures have revealed.
The health board region’s cumulative number of cases since the start of the pandemic rose from 3976 to 3987 when the latest daily update was published.
The number of people receiving treatment for the virus in NHS Highland hospitals remained unchanged overnight, at 33, but those in intensive care increased by one, to eight.
There were 758 new positive tests for Covid-19 across the whole of Scotland in the past 24 hours. This represented 7.4 per cent of all those tested in that window.
Scotland’s hospitals were treating 1939 people for the coronavirus last night – a fall of 19 on yesterday’s update. But the number of people in intensive care was unchanged at 143.
And, sadly, a further 69 deaths have been recorded among people who tested positive for the virus in the previous 28 days.
Elsewhere in the north of Scotland, there were no new infections in the Northern Isles for the third day running – and NHS Shetland has now gone a week without a fresh positive test.
However, there were seven new cases in NHS Eileanan Siar, which has now had 196 known infections since the beginning of the pandemic.
There were 45 positive tests in the past 24 hours in the NHS Grampian health board area, which now has a cumulative tally of 12,516.
And NHS Tayside added 37 infections to its overall total, which now stands at 12,146.
There have been 181,291 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across Scotland since the beginning of the pandemic.
But in better news, almost 35,000 people received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the past day – taking the overall number to 610,778.
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