Coronavirus – Thursday’s figures

The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 27 May 2021 in Scotland are shown below. In Lothian the number of cases is double what was reported yesterday, although overall Scottish cases are fewer than reported on Wednesday.

Glasgow remains in Level Three for now, meaning that travel in and out of the area is for essential reasons only. Both the proportion of cases and of positive tests have continued to rise in Glasgow, with the April-02 variant thought to be driving the spread, meaning the city will remain in Level 3 for at least another week. 

The First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon said at a media briefing earlier this week: “This means, as of today, that more than 5 million doses of vaccine have been administered. That is a fantastic milestone but also a massive logistical achievement for all our vaccinations teams across the country. My thanks go to all of them.”

But the First Minister warned there is no room for complacency. She said: “We are seeing a rise in cases just now – over the past 16 days, case numbers have doubled and while some of this will be down to increased testing, the test positivity rate has crept up too. Some of the increase in case numbers being recorded just now will be due to the easing of restrictions in the last month. As we know, when we mix more, the virus has more opportunities to spread.”

Ms Sturgeon mentioned the missed appointments which happened particularly in Glasgow at the weekend. She said: “Please go to onto http://nhsinform.scot to arrange an appointment. The vaccinations section of the site has a section on missing appointments details, with a form you can submit. Alternatively, you can call the national Vaccination Helpline on 0800 030 8013.

“Secondly, if you are aged between 18 and 29, you can now register online for vaccination. This will help ensure that all your details are correct and up to date.”

Register here: http://register.vacs.nhs.scot

But for most of the rest of Scotland there has been a move to Level Two.

The restrictions at Level Two mean that groups of eight people from up to eight households can meet outdoors, and people can meet in each other’s homes including for overnight stays. Up to six people from three households can meet indoors.

International travel is now allowed on the basis of a traffic light system, but the First Minister has urged caution and staycationing. Those entering from red list countries must go to a quarantine hotel. Those on the amber list must self isolate at home and take two PCR tests.

Those entering from the green list must also take a PCR test. The green list is the same as the rest of the UK, allowing a four nations approach. The countries include Australia, Brunei, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Israel and Jerusalem, New Zealand, Portugal (And Azores and Madeira), Singapore, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, St Helena, ascension and Tristan de Cunha.

As at 23 May, 10,114 deaths have been registered in Scotland where the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was mentioned on the death certificate, according to statistics published by National Records of Scotland (NRS) today. 

In the week 17 April – 23 May, four deaths were registered that mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate, a decrease of two deaths from the previous week and the lowest weekly total since September 2020.

There were two deaths in South Lanarkshire, one in East Dunbartonshire and one in Falkirk. Total deaths were three per cent below the five year average, with 29 fewer deaths in total. 

NRS has also today published data on the total number of deaths involving COVID-19 in individual hospitals and care homes in Scotland. 

Pete Whitehouse, Director of Statistical Services, said:

“This week’s figures show there were no deaths in 29 of 32 Scottish local authorities where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. 

“Our weekly updates on deaths in Scotland since April 2020 have included details on the number of deaths in care homes and hospitals throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Today we have made available information on the number of deaths in each individual institution during this period.”

*means either includes weekend’s figures or IT reporting problem.

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-195	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
27 May 2021	464	98	28,699	1.8%	0	7,666	4	83	233,671	3,174,807	47,550	1,942,285
26 May 2021	546	59	28,764	2.1%	0	7,666	6	98	233,207	3,155,733	49,962	1,913,809
25 May 2021	318	54		2%	2	7,666	6	97	232,661	3,138,366	45,456	1,881,214
24 May 2021	313*	39	12,177*	2.8%	0	7,664	5	94	232,343	3,121,945	36,375	1,852,179
23 May 2021	378	63	21,002	2.0%	0	7,664			232,030	3,108,819	45,571	1,828,930
22 May 2021	370									3,096,341		1,799,956
21 May 2021	414	48		1.9%	0	7,664	4	81	231,282	3,082,251		1,769,040
20 May 2021	432	65	28,589	1.6%	0	7,664	5	83	230,868	3,063,648	49,949	1,742,072
19 May 2021	394	59	26,912	1.6%	0	7,664	4	78	230,436	3,051,383	41,150	1,704,388
18 May 2021	268	29	17,515	1.7%	0	7,664	4	70	230,042	3,045,152		1,669,469
17 May 2021	161	21	11,361	1.6%	0	7,664	3	68	229,774	3,035,790	32,960	1,638,536
16 May 2021	292	45	16,003	2.0%	0	7,664			229,613	3,020,335	38,508	1,621,031
15 May 2021	413	54	27,866	1.6%	0	7,664			229,321	3,003,339	41,828	1,599,519
14 May 2021	215*	37	17,457*	1.3%*	2	7,664	3	64	228,908	2,985,557	41,814	1,575,765
13 May 2021	270	26	25,093	1.2%	1	7,662	4	63	228,693	2,968,169	44,015	1,551,339
12 May 2021	345			1.3%	0						39,917
11 May 2021	238			1.7%							41,124
10 May 2021	168	17	11,516	1.6%	0	7,661	6	72	227,840	2,909,156	28,181	1,485,296
9 May 2021	200	24	13,976	1.5%	0	7,661			227,672	2,897,975	32,089	1,468,296
8 May 2021	224										33,341
7 May 2021	236	1
6 May 2021	283*	35		0.9%*	0	7,660	11	58	227,012	2,860,635	54,016	1,400,296
5 May 2021	85*	11	11,273*	0.8%*	0	7,660	13	69	226,729	2,846,834		1,373,882
4 May 2021	139	43	13,744	1.1%	0	7,660	11	58	226,644	2,833,761		1,348,050
3 May 2021	132		10,195	1.5%	0					2,824,955		1,326,599
2 May 2021	146		14,213	1.1%	0					2,817,752		1,297,664
1 May 2021	175		19,638	1.1%	1					2,811,343		1,263,862
30 April 2021	191	38	18,500	1.1%	0	7,659	9	67	226,052	2,802,152	45,574	1,224,861
29 April 2021	178	21	25,392	0.8%	5	7,659	12	70	225,861	2,796,810		1,184,629
28 April 2021	204				1		12	75		2,789,978	48,073	1,142,947
27 April 2021	133						11	81
26 April 2021	142	45	9,816	1.7%			12	93	225,346	2,773,770		1,068,704
25 April 2021	176		16,434	1.3%						technical difficulties – no figures
24 April 2021	177		18,384	1.1%	4	7,653			225,028	2,764,607	50,178	993,180
23 April 2021	255	27	19,771	1.5%	1	7,649	12	93	224,851	2,758,381	39,380	949,228
22 April 2021	231	34	23,302	1.1%	3	7,648	12	93	224,596	2,755,175	53,176	898,231
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

You can also see the latest numbers laid out visually on the Travelling Tabby website here. It is updated at 3pm daily.