One newly-confirmed positive test for coronavirus recorded in NHS Highland area; news comes as Scotland registered 26 new cases of Covid-19 in the past day

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

The cumulative number of Highlanders confirmed with the virus since the start of the pandemic rose to 390 when today's daily update was published.

It came as 26 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed across the whole of Scotland in the past day.

The number of people receiving treatment in hospital for the virus stood at 248 – up five from yesterday – but those in intensive care remained unchanged on three.

And there were no new reports of fatalities among those who had tested positive for Covid-19.

Elsewhere in the north, NHS Orkney reported no fresh cases overnight – its first day without any newly-confirmed diagnoses since last week, when a small cluster linked to a fishing boat broke out.

NHS Shetland and NHS Eileanan Siar also recorded no new cases in the past 24 hours.

NHS Grampian, meanwhile, recorded half of Scotland's new daily cases – seeing its number of positive tests rise 13 overnight to 1839.

And NHS Tayside reported three freshly-confirmed cases to take its overall number of infections since the start of the pandemic to 1838. Its cumulative tally has now been overtaken by that of NHS Grampian – yet, just three weeks ago, Grampian had experienced almost 350 fewer confirmed cases. That sharp rise has been attributed to a recent cluster of infections linked to a number of Aberdeen bars.

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