ANOTHER five people have died after contracting Covid-19 in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
A further 928 cases were also confirmed, with a positivity rate of 6.6%.
The deaths, recorded in the past 24 hours among those who tested positive in the previous 28 days, bring the total under that measurement to 6443. However, that figure is likely to be artificially low because registration offices are closed at weekends.
Some 1672 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, down 38 in 24 hours.
Of these, 108 were in intensive care, no change on the previous day.
It means there’s been a decrease of 280 hospital patients over the past week, though the overall number remains higher than during the first wave last spring.
📺 Watch live: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds a press conference on #coronavirus (#COVIDー19).
— Scottish Government (@scotgov) February 8, 2021
Joining the First Minister is Chief Nursing Officer Professor Fiona McQueen. https://t.co/aeF0ledUwN
A total of 283 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 169 were in Lanarkshire and 121 are in Lothian.
The other cases were spread among nine other health board areas.
The First Minister, speaking at the Scottish Government briefing, also revealed 866,823 people in Scotland have received the first dose of the vaccine as of 8.30am.
That’s an increase of 27,557 on the figures announced yesterday and is three times higher than last Sunday.
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