NHS Highland reports 179 new cases of Covid-19 coronavirus in past 24 hours; figure means more than 1000 cases have been recorded in one week
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MORE than 1000 Covid-19 cases have been recorded across the NHS Highland region in just the last week – nearly a tenth of all known infections reported in the area in the entire pandemic.
The region’s cumulative number of known cases rose from 9901 on August 16 to 10,927 on August 23 – with 179 of those being recorded in the past 24 hours.
The sharp rise in cases comes just days after NHS Highland bosses warned of a “significant” surge in the number of infections in communities across the health board area, and urged residents to do everything they could to minimise their chances to catching and spreading the virus.
The number of people receiving treatment for the virus in the health board area rose to 15 – up two from yesterday.
There were 3189 new cases of Covid-19 across Scotland over the past day – equivalent to 12.4 per cent of people tested during that 24 hour window.
Some 356 people were receiving treatment for the virus in Scottish hospitals last night – of whom 41 were in intensive care.
No fresh deaths were recorded in the past day, although officials caution that most registry offices are shut at weekends.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the north of Scotland there were six new cases of the virus in NHS Eileanan Siar, which now has a cumulative total of 508. NHS Shetland registered five fresh infections and there were two in NHS Orkney – for running tallies of 426 and 186 respectively.
NHS Grampian’s figure rose by 149, to 25,224.
And NHS Tayside’s overall total stood at 28,737, after a rise of 161.
Some 386,591 confirmed cases of the virus have been detected across Scotland since the pandemic began.
More than 4.08 million people in Scotland have now received their first dose of the Covid vaccine, and over 3.57 million have had their second jag.
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