SCOTLAND has recorded another 5529 Covid cases and 30 new deaths, Scottish Government figures reveal.
The Scottish Government said the technical issues that prevented publication of yesterday’s confirmed Covid-19 cases and test positivity have now been resolved.
The daily update released today on cases and test rates reflect the records processed by Public Health Scotland in the last 24 hours.
Since the last update on 15 September (approximately a 48 hour period) there have been 5885 new confirmed positive cases.
3,030,615 people in Scotland have been tested for #coronavirus
— Scottish Government (@scotgov) September 17, 2021
The total confirmed as positive has risen by 5,529 to 523,095
Sadly 30 more people who tested positive have died (8,349 in total)
Latest update ➡️ https://t.co/bZPbrCoQux
Health advice ➡️ https://t.co/l7rqArB6Qu pic.twitter.com/g4cJMIofyW
There were 1037 people in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed coronavirus and 87 of those were in intensive care.
Of the 60,077 cases that recorded coronavirus results, 9.9% were positive.
Some 4,150,157 people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 3,798,938 have received their second dose.
Meanwhile, Scotland continues to have the highest level of coronavirus cases in the UK, figures suggest.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that around one in 45 people had Covid-19 in the week to September 11, the second week in a row it has been at the highest level since estimates began for Scotland in last October.
This is the equivalent of around 120,800 people, the ONS said.
While the percentage of people testing positive had increased slightly (from 2.23% to 2.29%) in the week ending September 11, the rate of increase had slowed, the ONS said.
All figures are for people living in private households and exclude hospitals and care homes.
The data also showed that around one in 80 people in England had Covid-19 in the week to September 11, down from one in 70 the previous week.
One in 80 in England is the equivalent of about 697,100 people.
At the peak of the second wave in early January, around one in 50 people in England were estimated to have coronavirus.
And in Wales, around one in 60 people are estimated to have had Covid-19 in the week to September 11, up from one in 65 in the previous week.
In Northern Ireland, the latest estimate is one in 75, down from one in 60 in the previous week.
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