Nairn Covid-19 cases accounted for roughly one in six coronavirus infections across the Highland Council area over the seven days to October 20
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UP to a dozen cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Nairn in a week.
The town, which is split into two parts on official coronavirus infection neighbourhood maps, reported between nine and 12 confirmed cases of the virus in the seven days up to October 20.
It meant that roughly one-in-six of the 56 Covid cases detected across all of Highland Council in the week October 14-20 were reported in the town.
Eight infections were detected in Nairn West over that period which, owing to the 4463 people living in that half of the town, gave it a Covid-19 infection rate of 179 per 100,000 people over those seven days.
However, owing to the low numbers in the data, neighbouring Nairn East – which reported "one to four" positive tests in the same period – had a positive rate which placed it into the official map's "15-29 cases per 100,000" category. The only way it could do so, however, was if it recorded just one case, instead of up to four, but the official map was not that specific.
The combined wards had a Covid-19 case rate of between 106 and 141 per 100,000, depending on whether they had nine or 12 infections.
The Scotland-wide rate was 150.6 over the same seven-day time window up to October 20, the latest date for which data was currently available at the time of writing.
