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NHS Highland records 13 new Covid-19 coronavirus infections


By Philip Murray

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Coronavirus update
Coronavirus update

THIRTEEN new positive tests for Covid-19 have been recorded across the NHS Highland region in the past day.

The health board area’s cumulative number of cases increased from 4704 to 4717 when the latest figures were released on Friday.

Fifteen people were receiving treatment for the virus in NHS Highland hospitals last night. This was down two from Thursday.

Across Scotland there were 498 positive tests for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. This represented 3.1 per cent of tests.

The number of people requiring treatment for the virus in Scottish hospitals fell by 52, to 666 last night.

Of those, 64 were in intensive care – a fall of three from Thursday’s update.

But sadly a further 11 deaths have been recorded among people who tested positive for the coronavirus in the previous 28 days.

Elsewhere in the north of Scotland, there were no fresh cases in the Northern Isles since yesterday’s update. NHS Eileanan Siar, meanwhile, saw its overall tally increase by three, to 277.

Twenty new cases were detected in the NHS Grampian area – for a running total of 13,560.

And NHS Tayside’s number of known cases during the pandemic rose by 37, to 13,313.

There have been 204,533 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Scotland since the pandemic started.

More than 1.7 million people have now had their first vaccine jag, after over 29,000 received their initial injection in the 24 hours up to 8.30am today.

More than 8000 received their second dose over the same period – over 108,197 in total.

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