NHS Highland health board region goes 24 hours without new Covid-19 cases for first time since late August
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NO new cases of Covid-19 were recorded across the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours – the first time since late August that the region has gone a full day without any further positive tests.
The region’s cumulative number of cases remained unchanged on 5149 when the latest daily figures were released at 2pm on Wednesday.
However, Public Health Scotland has signalled a note of caution over today's news. It has warned that there have been “data flow issues from UK government testing sites” since 3pm yesterday, and that these “could be contributing to a lower number of cases reported today”.
Across Scotland there were only 85 newly-reported infections in the past 24 hours. It is unclear if the data flow issues artificially lowered this total. But, for context, the previous 24 hour window registered just 139 new cases across Scotland.
Sixty-nine people were receiving treatment for the virus in Scottish hospitals last night – up 11 from Tuesday.
Of these, 13 were in intensive care – a rise of two.
No further deaths were reported among people who tested positive for the virus in the past 28 days.
Elsewhere in the north of Scotland, there were no newly-confirmed cases of the virus in either NHS Shetland, NHS Orkney or NHS Eileanan Siar.
Eighteen new positive tests were registered in NHS Grampian, for a running tally of 15.068.
And NHS Tayside detected just one new infection, for an overall total of 14,700.
Almost 2.85 million Scots have now had their first vaccination jag, while more than 1.37 million have had their second.
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