NHS Highland records its biggest ever number of positive Covid-19 tests in a single day
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MORE than 150 new positive tests for the coronavirus were registered across NHS Highland in the past 24 hours – the biggest single day total ever posted by the health board.
The region’s cumulative number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began rose from 6658 to 6809 when Public Health Scotland released its latest daily figures on Friday.
The rise of 151 means that it has taken the region less than a week and a half to post its 1000 most recent positive tests – with it having a total of 5794 as recently as June 23.
There were 3823 new positive tests for Covid-19 across Scotland in the past 24 hours, or 10.8 per cent of all people tested in the country during that time period.
Some 285 people were receiving hospital treatment for the virus in Scotland last night – an increase of 10. Of those, 19 were in intensive care. This was up three from Thursday’s update.
And sadly four further people have died after testing positive for the virus in the past 28 days.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the north of Scotland there were three new positive tests in NHS Eileanan Siar (for a running total of 308), two fresh cases across NHS Orkney (for an overall tally of 95) and a single further infection in NHS Shetland (which now stands on 270).
NHS Grampian’s overall total rose by 322 in the past 24 hours, and is now 18,635.
And NHS Tayside added 481 new cases to its running tally, which sits at 21,311.
Scotland has now registered 289,279 positive tests for Covid-19 since the pandemic began.
More than 3.82 million people have now had their first vaccination shot, while almost 2.74 million have received their second jag.
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