No new Highland deaths from coronavirus registered in the past week, figures released today reveal

No further deaths from coronavirus have been registered in the Highlands over the past seven days.

That means the current death toll in the NHS Highland area remains at 114 for a second week in a row, with the death toll in the smaller Highland Council area also unchanged at 50.

Each Wednesday the National Records of Scotland (NRS) issues numbers of cases where Covid-19 has been mentioned on a death certificate.

Scotland as a whole has seen a rise in the total number of Covid-19 deaths of 17 in the past week, bringing the total to 4173.

This is a lower rate of increase than the previous week however, making it the tenth week in a row that the death rate has fallen.

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