Scotland records just four new positive tests for Covid-19 since yesterday, daily update reveals; NHS Highland registered no freshly-confirmed cases, and remained static on 376 diagnoses since the coronavirus pandemic began
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Only four fresh positive tests for Covid-19 were recorded across the whole of Scotland in the past day – and none in the Highlands.
The Scottish Government's daily update also revealed that there were no further coronavirus fatalities recorded across the country in the past 24 hours.
The overall number of positive tests since the start of the pandemic now stands at 18,300, and of those 2488 have died.
As well as no freshly-confirmed cases of Covid-19 in NHS Highland, the entire north of Scotland also went 24 hours without any new positive tests.
As of 2pm today there have been 376 confirmed diagnoses for Covid-19 in the Highlands since the start of the outbreak. In NHS Grampian, the figure remained unchanged at 1426, as too did the numbers for Tayside (1772), Shetland (54), Orkney (nine) and Eileanan Siar (seven).
The number of cases in intensive care also dropped in the Highlands and in Grampian. NHS Highlands' number of intensive care cases fell below five, while in Grampian, the number dropped from 38 to 37.
The falls were mirrored by Scotland as a whole, where the number of people in ICUs with confirmed Covid-19 dropped from 424 at the time of yesterday's update to 382 today. Of those, only four were in intensive care.
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