The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport Jeane Freeman and the Chief Medical Officer held today’s media briefing from St Andrew’s House.
The statistics in Scotland as at 3 March 2021 are shown below and display one of the lowest test positivity rates in recent months.
As at 28 February 2021, 9,580 deaths were registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate according to weekly statistics reported by National Records of Scotland.
The number of deaths in care homes is declining significantly and the Health Secretary said this shows that the vaccine is working.
*There has been a problem with the number of daily deaths being aligned with other statistics. That is why today’s figure has taken a jump which does not reflect the number of deaths registered since yesterday.
| Date | Newly reported cases of Covid-19 | Cases in Lothian | New tests | Test positivity rate (bold denotes days under 5.0% and the highest this month) | 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 positive cases since beginning of pandemic | Number of first vaccinations administered | Number of daily vaccinations recorded for previous day with highest daily figure in bold | Number of people who have received their second dose of vaccine |
| 3 March 2021 | 543 | 77 | 2.6% | 35 | 7,371* | 69 | 750 | 1,661,879 | 35,623 | 92,550 | ||
| 2 March 2021 | 542 | 104 | 14,537 | 4.4% | 33 | 7,164 | 71 | 784 | 203,012 | 1,634,361 | 84,445 | |
| 1 March 2020 | 386 | 70 | 4.5% | 0 | 7,131 | 71 | 824 | 202,470 | ||||
| High and low numbers of newly reported cases since mid December 2020 | ||||||||||||
| 27 February 2021 | 525 | 106 | 19,615 | 3.1% | 18 | 7,129 | 74 | 898 | 201,512 | 1,570,153 | 27,224 | 72,178 |
| 4 February 2021 | 1,149 | 159 | 27,668 | 4.9% | 53 | 6,322 | 127 | 1,812 | 183,418 | 694,347 | 45,085 | 9,031 |
| Highs and lows in January | ||||||||||||
| 7 January 2021 | 2,649 | 357 | 11.3% | 78 | 100 | 1,467 | 143,715 | |||||
| 31 December 2021 | 2,622 | 28,295 | 10.1% | 68 | 70 | 1,174 | ||||||
| 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.
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complete an online passenger locator form before travelling, and provide contact details, travel details and the address of their final destination. You will need to enter the booking reference for your managed isolation package.
be tested on day of 2 and 8 during of your 10 day quarantine
follow the national rules on Coronavirus in Scotland
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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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