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One fresh positive test for the coronavirus reported in NHS Highland area in past day; new Covid-19 case comes as 65 new infections were confirmed across Scotland; authorities are also investigating a Scrabster, Caithness, connection to a small outbreak in Orkney


By Philip Murray

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ONE new positive test for Covid-19 has been recorded in the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours.

The cumulative number of cases recorded in the region since the start of the pandemic rose to 389 when the latest daily update was published at 2pm.

Scotland, meanwhile, recorded 65 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

But, in better news, the number of people requiring hospital treatment for the virus fell by five, to 25,3 in the past day.

And the number of people in intensive care was unchanged on three. The country's long run without any new deaths among people who tested positive for the virus also continued.

Elsewhere in the north of Scotland, NHS Orkney recorded new cases of the virus for the second day running - having recorded none in almost two months before that.

It added two new positive tests overnight, to take its cumulative total since the start of the pandemic to 14. The five cases recorded in the past 48 hours are understood to be linked to a fishing boat which sailed from Peterhead, and contact tracing is in place for people the vessel's crew may have come into contact with during a stop in Scrabster in Caithness, before heading to Orkney.

The link to Peterhead follows Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire's recent increase in cases, which have fed into NHS Grampian's continuing rise in infections. Twenty-eight further positive tests were recorded in that health board area in the past 24 hours, to take its overall total to 1787.

Meanwhile, NHS Tayside also recorded six new positive tests to take its total to 1823 since the start of the pandemic.

But there was better news for NHS Shetland and NHS Eileanan Siar, which both registered no additional cases in the past day.

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