The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The statistics in Scotland as at 8 February 2021 are shown below and the number of people vaccinated since yesterday is 27,557.
It is not immediately clear to us why the numbers of people receiving the vaccine should decrease at weekends, although Sunday’s figure is a massive increase on last weekend. It is however a decrease on the figure for Saturday as you can see below.
The First Minister says the news about the vaccination programme is “extremely encouraging” and she welcomes that the programme has picked up the pace “which we always said it would do”. She reminds everyone that 99.6% of residents in older care homes have been vaccinated which exceeds all of the government’s expectations on the uptake of vaccination.
Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader, Willie Rennie, claims that The Scottish Government’s sluggish rollout of the life saving vaccine has improved but the gap with England is still huge. He alleges that Scotland should have vaccinated almost 1 million people by now but is still 148,594 shy of that number. 987,860 should have been vaccinated if Scotland had vaccinated at the same rate as England but only 839,266 have been vaccinated according to Sunday’s figures.
Mr Rennie said: “It is good news that Scotland’s rollout is slowly picking up pace but the First Minister should cut the boasting about record daily figures when Scotland is still way behind England.
“Every day and every vaccine counts as the longer people are left unprotected the greater the exposure to risk and the longer it will take to defeat the virus. Almost a million people should have been vaccinated by now but we are way off that number because of the sluggish start to the rollout here.”
As at 31 January, 8,347 deaths have been registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate according to statistics reported by National Records of Scotland.
| Date | Newly reported cases of Covid-19 | Cases in Lothian | New positive tests | Test positivity rate | Newly reported deaths | Number of deaths according to daily measurement | Patients in ICU with confirmed Covid-19 | Patients in hospital with confirmed Covid-19 | Total number of cases since beginning of pandemic | Number of first vaccinations administered | Number of daily vaccinations recorded for previous day | Number of people who have received their second dose of vaccine |
| 8 February 2021 | 928 | 121 | 6.6% | 5 | 6,443 | 108 | 1,672 | 186,720 | 866,823 | 27,557 | ||
| 7 February 2021 | 584 | 72 | 9,479 | 6.9% | 7 | 6,438 | 108 | 1,710 | 185,792 | 839,266 | 52,799 | 10,582 |
| 6 February 2021 | 895 | 133 | 17,940 | 5.9% | 48 | 6,431 | 117 | 1,728 | 185,208 | 786,427 | 43,915 | 10,332 |
| 5 February 2021 | 895 | 103 | 21,943 | 4.9% | 61 | 6,383 | 123 | 1,794 | 184,313 | 742,512 | 48,165 | 9,529 |
| 4 February 2021 | 1,149 | 159 | 27,668 | 4.9% | 53 | 6,322 | 127 | 1,812 | 183,418 | 694,347 | 45,085 | 9,031 |
| 3 February 2021 | 978 | 82 | 22,807 | 5.1% | 88 | 6,269 | 128 | 1,871 | 182,269 | 649,262 | 38,484 | 8,758 |
| 2 February 2021 | 758 | 63 | 12,731 | 7.4% | 69 | 6,181 | 143 | 1,939 | 181,291 | 610,778 | 34,881 | |
| 1 February 2021 | 848 | 111 | 9.5% | 6 | 6,112 | 143 | 1,958 | 180,533 | 575,897 | 9,628 | ||
| 31 January 2021 | 1,003 | 121 | 14,163 | 8.1% | 6 | 6,106 | 143 | 1,941 | 179,685 | 566,269 | ||
| Highest and lowest numbers of newly reported cases since mid December 2020 | ||||||||||||
| 7 January 2021 | 2,649 | 357 | 11.3% | 78 | 100 | 1,467 | 143,715 | |||||
| 16 December 2020 | 689 | 5.9% | 38 | 49 | 1,031 | 18,644 | ||||||
You can also see the latest numbers laid out visually on the Travelling Tabby website here. It is updated at 3pm daily.
To minimise the risk of spreading the virus, you must stay at home as much as possible. By law, in a level 4 area, you can only leave your home (or garden) for an essential purpose.
There is a list of examples of reasonable excuses below. Although you can leave home for these purposes, you should stay as close to home as possible. Shop on-line or use local shops and services wherever you can. Travel no further than you need to reach to a safe, non-crowded place to exercise in a socially distanced way. To minimise the risk of spread of Coronavirus it is crucial that we all avoid unnecessary travel.
Examples of reasonable excuses to go out:
for work or an activity associated with seeking employment, or to provide voluntary or charitable services, but only where that cannot be done from your home.
for education including, school, college, university or other essential purposes connected with a course of study.
for essential shopping, including essential shopping for a vulnerable person. You should use online shopping or shops and other services in your immediate area wherever you can.
to obtain or deposit money, where it is not possible to do so from home.
for healthcare, including COVID-19 testing and vaccination.
for childcare or support services for parents or expectant parents.
for essential services, including services of a charitable or voluntary nature such as food banks, alcohol or drug support services.
to access public services where it is not possible to do so, including from home:
services provided to victims (such as victims of crime),
social-care services,
accessing day care centres,
services provided by the Department for Work and Pensions,
services provided to victims (including victims of crime),
asylum and immigration services and interviews,
waste or recycling services,
to provide care, assistance, support to or respite for a vulnerable person
to provide or receive emergency assistance.
to participate in or facilitate shared parenting.
to visit a person in an extended household.
to meet a legal obligation including satisfying bail conditions, to participate in legal proceedings, to comply with a court mandate in terms of sentence imposed or to register a birth.
for attendance at court including a remote jury centre, an inquiry, a children’s hearing, tribunal proceedings or to resolve a dispute via Alternative Dispute Resolution.
for essential animal welfare reasons, such as exercising or feeding a horse or going to a vet.
local outdoor recreation, sport or exercise, walking, cycling, golf, or running that starts and finishes at the same place (which can be up to 5 miles from the boundary of your local authority area) as long as you abide by the rules on meeting other households
to attend a marriage ceremony or registration of a civil partnership.
to attend a funeral or for compassionate reasons which relate to the end of a person’s life. This includes gatherings related to the scattering or interring of ashes, a stone setting ceremony and other similar commemorative events.
if you are a minister of religion or worship leader, for the purposes of leading an act of worship (broadcast or online), conducting a marriage or civil partnership ceremony or a funeral.
to donate blood.
for activities in connection with moving home (including viewing a property), or for activities in connection with the maintenance, purchase, sale, letting, or rental of residential property that the person owns or is otherwise responsible for. Travelling for the purposes of undertaking essential work on a property other than your main residence should not be used as a pretext for a holiday. You should not stay longer than for the length of time required to undertake the necessary work.
to avoid injury, illness or to escape a risk of harm.
for those involved in professional sports, for training, coaching or competing in an event.
to visit a person receiving treatment in a hospital, staying in a hospice or care home, or to accompany a person to a medical appointment.
to register or vote in a Scottish or UK Parliament, Local Government or overseas election or by-election, including on behalf of someone else by proxy
to visit a person detained in prison, young offenders institute, remand centre, secure accommodation or other place of detention.
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You can only meet people from another household outdoors and in indoor public spaces for certain reasons, such as for work, to join your extended household, for sport, exercise, social interaction or to provide care and support for a vulnerable person. This can include providing emotional support for someone whose wellbeing is at risk, including for those who are isolated because of disability or a caring situation. Read Coronavirus (COVID-19): advice for unpaid carers
Up to 2 people from 2 separate households can meet outdoors for sport, exercise or social interaction.
Children under the age of 12 from these households do not count towards the total number of people permitted to gather outdoors.
Children under 12 do not need to maintain physical distance from others indoors or outdoors.
The members of an individual or extended household can meet outdoors for sport, exercise or social interaction.
Those at a higher risk of severe illness from coronavirus (including those who had been shielding, people 70 and over, people who are pregnant and people with an underlying medical condition) should strictly follow the physical distancing guidance.
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