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NHS Highland area registers 46 fresh Covid-19 coronavirus infections


By Philip Murray

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Covid-19 update.
Covid-19 update.

FORTY-six new Covid-19 cases have been confirmed across the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours.

The region’s cumulative number of known infections rose from 3585 to 3631 when the latest daily figures were released on Friday afternoon.

NHS Highland’s hospitals were treating 33 patients for Covid-19 last night, up one from yesterday. But the number of those in intensive care fell by one, to seven.

There were 1480 new positive tests for Covid-19 across the whole of Scotland in the past day. This represented 6.9 per cent of all tests carried out in that window.

Some 2053 people were receiving treatment in Scotland’s hospitals for the coronavirus – a rise of 49 since yesterday.

Of those, 161 were in intensive care – a figure which was unchanged from Thursday’s update.

And sadly a further 71 people who tested positive in the past 28 days have since died.

All north of Scotland health boards recorded new cases of the virus.

NHS Shetland and NHS Eileanan Siar both registered one new infection each, to take their overall number of cases to 206 and 169 respectively.

There were three fresh positives in NHS Orkney, which has now had 56 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

NHS Grampian registered a further 128 new positive tests, for a running total of 11,724.

And NHS Tayside recorded 106 fresh cases – to take its cumulative tally to 11,400.

There have now been 169,699 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across Scotland since the pandemic began last spring.

Some 358,454 people in Scotland have now received at least the first dose of the vaccine – a little under 24,000 doses up from yesterday’s figure.

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