Coronavirus – Wednesday’s figures

Phyllis Stephen

April 21, 2021 2:57 pm

The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 19 April in Scotland are shown below.

There are no daily briefings unless there are major announcements in the coming weeks leading up to the election, but yesterday there was a scheduled briefing.

Last week, the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, announced certain relaxations of restrictions from 16 April and others from the end of April.

Yesterday Ms Sturgeon announced that as from next Monday 26 April there can be further relaxations, and the whole of mainland Scotland will be in Level Three. There is a table below prepared by The Scottish Government on what you can and cannot do when Level Three restrictions apply.

These include full reopening of retail and partial reopening of hospitality. On 17 May Scotland is expected to move into Level Two allowing people to meet indoors in small groups with a further move to Level 0 on 7 June.

The First Minister said: “We are very hopeful of seeing sustained progress in the weeks and months ahead.”

As at 18 April 2021, 10,055 deaths were registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate according to weekly statistics reported by National Records of Scotland. These figures are updated each Wednesday. The number of weekly deaths due to COVID-19 are now at their lowest level since early October.

Pete Whitehouse, Director of Statistical Services, said: “This week shows another welcome reduction in the number of weekly deaths, but with over 10,000 people in Scotland dying with this virus, these figures represent heartbreak and loss for families across the country.

“Deaths from all causes are broadly in line with the five year average. And, 24 excess deaths were registered this week, which was 2% above the average for this time of year.”

The BBC has explained that from 24 March:

Live briefings will only be broadcast on BBC One in Scotland when it is expected that “major new information” will be shared – such as a formal review of restrictions
If a UK government briefing is broadcast live on BBC One in Scotland, there will be additional coverage so Scottish parties can respond
The BBC will consider the significance of the public health information which is expected to be discussed, and requirements on impartiality, when deciding whether to broadcast other government briefings. It is expected that these briefings would be shown on BBC Scotland or the BBC News Channel
If a live briefing is led by a Scottish government minister, members of the other main parties will be invited to contribute to the coverage

Special Ofcom rules for broadcasters around impartiality take effect in the lead up to elections in the UK.

Date	Newly reported cases of Covid-19	Cases in Lothian	New tests	Test positivity rate (bold denotes days under 3.0% and the highest in recent weeks)	Newly reported deaths	Number of deaths according to daily measurement	Patients in ICU with confirmed Covid-19	Patients in hospital with confirmed Covid-19 (under 500 is in bold)	Total number of positive cases since beginning of pandemic	Number of first dose vaccinations administered	Number of daily vaccinations recorded for previous day with highest daily figure in bold (includes 1st and 2nd doses) Above 30,000 in bold	Number of people who have received their second dose of vaccine
21 April 2021	273	37	24,349	1.3%	1	7,645	14	107	224,365	2,752,575	52,911	847,655
20 April 2021	178			1.4%	2	7,644	13	106	224,092	2,750,052	42,510	797,267
19 April 2021	232	30	10,649	2.5%	0	7,642	14	104	223,914	2,747,694	22,158	757,115
18 April 2021	211	26	15,097	1.6%	0	7,642			223,682	2,744,231	33,550	738,420
17 April 2021	210	22	19,331	1.2%	2	7,642			223,471	2,733,387	38,256	715,714
16 April 2021	204	12	18,125	1.4%	3	7,640	18	109	223,261	2,722,084	40,179	688,761
15 April 2021	237	27	23,580	1.2%	1	7,637	16	115	222,897	2,708,691	41,273	661,975
14 April 2021	278	29	24,794	1.3%	3	7,636	20	119	222,660	2,694,971		634,422
13 April 2021	221	21	15,354	1.6%	3	7,633	20	133	222,382	2,682,706		605,126
12 April 2021	199	28	9,797	2.4%	0	7,630	21	154	222,161	2,668,723	32,444	590,174
11 April 2021	250	26	15,916	1.8%	0	7,630			221,962	2,657,578	31,230	568,875
10 April 2021	281	31	22,183	1.5%	4	7,630			221,712	2,643,510	44,147	551,026
9 April 2021	285	36	20,729	1.6%	6	7,626	20	168	221,431	2,625,577	41,182	524,812
8 April 2021	364	41	26,582	1.6%	1	7,620	21	174	221,146	2,608,831	36,036	500,376
7 April 2021	289	46	22,093	1.5%	5	7,619	21	192	220,782	2,593,932	31,575	479,239
6 April 2021	259	268 (from 28 March to 3 April)	14,268	2%	0	7,610	21	196	220,493	2,577,816	19,942	463,780
5 April 2021	248		11,373	2.5%	0	7,610				2,565,280	16,760	456,374
4 April 2021	343		14,164	2.7%	0	7,610				2,553,837	34,064	451,057
3 April 2021	397		21,560	2.1%	0	7,610				2,535,889	40,542	434,941
2 April 2021	414		23,818	2.0%						2,515,748	37,889	414,540
1 April 2021	400	73	25,956	1.8%	8	7,610	21	215	218,432	2,493,327	42,984	399,062


31 March 2021	542	73	28,144	2.1%	6	7,602	21	237	218,432	2,464,069	42,984	354,756
30 March 2021	411		17,468	2.8%	12	7,596	23	250		2,436,398	38,752	338,443
29 March 2021	352	44	12,456	3.2%	0	7,584	22	259	217,749	2,409,826	38,060	326,263
28 March 2021	422	81	17,627	2.6%	0	7,584	22	264	217,127	2,385,709	44,508	312,320
27 March 2021	563	119	25,519	2.4%	6	7,584	26	283	216,705	2,358,807	50,875	294,714
26 March 2021	543	94	24,886	2.4%	6	7,578	26	296	216,142	2,322,832	53,699	279,814
25 March 2021	701	157	31,946	2.4%	10	7,572	32	310	215,599	2,285,711	50,083	263,236
22 March 2021	359	46	10,759	3.7%	0	7,552	33	353	213,888	2,182,400	42,368	225,096
20 March 2021	488	85	19,947	2.7%	8	7,552	31	367	212,997	2,085,525		207,028
15 March 2021	456	70	11,261	4.7%	0	7,510	40	447	210,008	1,908,991	22,201	161,945
14 March 2021	484	75	16,261	3.3%	2	7,510	40	461	209,552	1,888,697	25,362	160,038
9 March 2021	466	62	16,342	3.3%	19	7,441	50	614	206,465	1,789,377	19,672	123,686
7 March 2021	390	63	14,057	3.2%	0	7,421	61	628	205,498	1,759,750		115,930
5 March 2021	498	73		3.1%	11	7,409	64	666		1,717,672	29,064	108,197
4 March 2021	500	71	24,723	2.5%	27	7,398	69	726	204,055	1,688,808	34,237	100,058
2 March 2021	542	104	14,537	4.4%	33	7,164	71	784	203,012	1,634,361		84,445
1 March 2021	386	70		4.5%	0	7,131	71	824	202,470

Lows and highs prior to 1 March
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