Twelve new coronavirus infections recorded in NHS Highland health board region; increase came as Scotland reported 701 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours
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A DOZEN new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland area.
The region’s cumulative number of confirmed infections rose from 4940 to 4952 when the Scottish Government published the latest daily update at 2pm.
Ten people were being treated for the coronavirus in NHS Highland hospitals last night – an increase of one from yesterday.
A total of 701 positive tests for the virus were recorded across Scotland in the past day. This equated to 2.4 per cent of all the tests carried out in the past 24 hours.
Some 310 people were receiving treatment for Covid in Scottish hospitals last night; a fall of 11 from Wednesday.
Thirty-two of those were in intensive care – up one.
And sadly a further 10 people who previously tested positive for the virus have now died.
Elsewhere in the north of Scotland, there were no fresh cases in either NHS Orkney or NHS Eileanan Siar – although there was one new positive test in NHS Shetland, which took its running total to 230.
Fifty-six new cases were detected in NHS Grampian – taking its cumulative number of infections since the start of the pandemic to 14,181.
There were also 56 new positive tests in NHS Tayside, for an overall tally of 14,036.
Scotland has now detected 215,599 cases since the pandemic began last year.
More than 36,000 people received their first Covid-19 vaccination jag in the past 24 hours – taking the overall total to 2,285,711.
And almost 14,000 had their second injection – taking that tally to just shy of 250,000.
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