A FURTHER 267 positive coronavirus tests have been confirmed in Scotland over the last 24 hours, the First Minister has announced.
Speaking at today’s Scottish Government daily briefing, Nicola Sturgeon said that accounted for 3.6% of all people tested yesterday.
The provisional information showed 101 cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 59 were in Lanarkshire, 53 were in Lothian and 13 were in Ayrshire and Arran.
The remaining 41 were spread among the other seven mainland health board areas.
The First Minister warned that because of a backlog of test cases, the figure is a little higher than it would typically be. Yesterday there were just 70 Covid-19 cases confirmed due to that backlog.
She clarified the backlog is not due to an issue linked to accessing tests, but a problem relating to the UK-wide lighthouse lab system. These are currently impacted by demand in other parts of the UK.
Sturgeon said she hopes to see improvement in this area, and she will keep the public updated.
The First Minister said weeks ago that she would be looking at how the number of people in hospital with coronavirus are counted.
From now the definition of people in hospital with the virus is those who have tested positive for coronavirus during their stay in hospital or in the previous two weeks to their arrival in hospital.
Sturgeon said this new definition will enable the Government to more accurately report changes to hospital numbers as we see cases increase.
Under that measure as of today there are 48 people in hospital with the virus. There are six people in ICU under that same measurement.
The First Minister added that yesterday there was one further death of a person who tested positive for coronavirus over the last 28 days, taking the total to 2500 under that measurement since the beginning of the pandemic.
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