Scottish Government to provide more Covid-19 details including care home figures
The Scottish Government will publish additional information on coronavirus (Covid-19) from today including the number of suspected cases in adult care homes.
Ministers currently publishes a range of information daily on testing, NHS board data on the number of people in Scottish hospitals with either confirmed or suspected Covid-19 including those in intensive care and management information such as number of 111 calls and NHS absences.
National Records of Scotland (NRS) also publishes a report every Wednesday on Covid-19 related deaths, including those where the virus is suspected.
From later today, the Scottish Government will also publish daily:
* a time series going back to the start of the pandemic of the daily deaths recorded with a COVID-19 positive laboratory test;
* a time series of the data that is available daily by health board (cases, inpatients, and ICU patients);
* the total number of hospital discharges of Covid-19 patients in Scotland;
* the daily and cumulative number of suspected Covid-19 cases reported by adult care homes;
* the number of adult care homes with a current suspected case of Covid-19 and the proportion of adult care homes affected; and
* the cumulative number of adult care homes that have reported more than one case of suspected Covid-19.
This information will be available every day at 2pm on the Scottish Government website.
There will also be a link to a new Public Health Scotland dashboard presenting the Covid-19 test data at NHS board and local authority level for lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases. This will also be updated daily.