Coronavirus – Thursday’s figures

The number of cases of Covid-19 in Scotland were announced by Public Health Scotland today.

The number of people who had either their first or second dose yesterday was again low, and is the eighth day since the end of June that the number of people vaccinated has fallen below 30,000.

Today the total of those vaccinated is 27,170.

Ms Sturgeon said: “As you can see from the numbers, the vaccine programme continues to make really good progress. And that should make us optimistic. But that optimism must be balanced by concern at the high case numbers we’ve seen. A pattern that is evident in other countries as well.

“There appears to be a slowdown in the rise of positive cases. But case numbers remain high and that is a worry. It is true that we cannot live a restricted way of life forever because that in itself affects our health and wellbeing. It’s also true thankfully that vaccines are offering us a way forward. However, that desire to “just live with it” cannot mean that we throw all caution to the wind and no longer worry at all about rising throw all caution to the wind and not worry about rising levels of infection.”

Ms Sturgeon explained that the majority of cases is now in younger people. She repeated that we cannot throw caution to the wind. She said: “Younger people are much less likely to become acutely ill, but the health impacts can still be significant. Many young people are suffering from Long Covid, which of course experts still do not full understand. It would be wrong and irresponsible because our young people are not guinea pigs.

“While far fewer people are ending up in hospital right now it is still the case that 3% of a high number of positive cases puts a significant pressure on our NHS. Vaccines are giving protection to those who were previously most likely to fall seriously ill.

“This is a race between the virus and the vaccine and we must not let the virus outrun us.”

The revised strategic framework set out the next review point which is 19 July, and there will be a cabinet meeting on 13 July to decide on the next steps. The First Minister said: “I very much hope we will be able to move ahead as planned, but we continue to monitor the latest data on cases and hospital admissions.” She also said that no matter when the move to Level 0 is made there will not be an abrupt end to a need for all the Covid safety measures such as wearing masks.

Scottish Greens welcomed more cautious language from the First Minister around Covid restrictions, but warned that this must be reflected in the support needed for people to stay safe.

Scottish Greens health spokesperson Gillian Mackay MSP said: “I welcome the more cautious language from the First Minister than the UK Government’s apparent willingness to give the virus free rein, and I particularly welcome her identifying that young people can and are getting sick and should not be treated like guinea pigs.

“There is clear and immediate pressure on our health services, and it is very clear we need continued support for people to stay safe, including to self-isolate. I’m concerned that the Scottish Government is reviewing self-isolation rules for contacts and school children when half the population is not yet vaccinated.

“Global health experts have warned the UK not to ‘tolerate high case numbers’ before the vaccine programme is completed, and it is vital Scotland doesn’t follow this dangerous path.”

The next review point will be 19 July by which time three weeks will have elapsed from the point when all over 50s should have been offered the vaccine. At that point the government hopes that all of Scotland can move to Level 0 and physical distancing can be reduced from two metres to one.

After that the next significant date is 9 August when the vast majority of over 40s will have a significant level of protection. At that time it might be possible to move beyond Level 0, but it will depend on the data at the time. But in any case the government will not advise an immediate return to full offices working from 9 August. All of these measures will take time to put back in place.

Statistics

As at 27 June, 10,168 deaths have been registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, according to statistics published by National Records of Scotland (NRS) on Wednesday.

In the week 21 – 27 June, 17 deaths were registered that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, an increase of four deaths from the previous week. 

There were two deaths in each of Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, East Ayrshire and Midlothian. 

Dundee City, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire all recorded one death each.

The number of deaths from all causes registered in Scotland in this week was 1,043, 24, or 2%, more than the five year average. 

Pete Whitehouse, Director of Statistical Services, said: “The latest figures show that last week there were 17 deaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

“The number of deaths has risen slightly in recent weeks but is still very low relative to the number of Covid-19 cases.

“Two deaths were aged under 65, five were aged 65-74 and there were ten deaths in people aged 75 or over. Four were female and thirteen were male. 

“Fourteen deaths were in hospitals, three deaths were at home or in a non-institutional setting. No care home deaths were registered in week 25.”

The publication Deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland is available on the NRS website.

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
8 July 2021	2,802			8%	4	7,744	38	401	306,449	3,900,864	27,672	2,825,886
7 July 2021	3,799	866	40,842	10.0%	5	7,740	34	387	303,647	3,890,176	28,549	2,808,902
6 July 2021	2,363	502	25,123	10.2%	6	7,735	32	346	299,848	3,879,458	27,170	2,791,071
5 July 2021	2,372	561	20,222	12.6%	0	7,729	30	338	297,485	3,869,223	23,619	2,774,136
4 July 2021	2,726	641	25,648	11.4%	0	7,729	25	316	295,113	3,857,584	25,996	2,762,156
3 July 2021	3,108	683	34,567	9.6%	3	7,729	25	305	292,387	3,844,371	24,627	2,749,373
2 July 2021	3,823			10.8%	4	7,726	19	285	289,279	3,831,770	30,141	2,737,347
1 July 2021	4,234	999	42,843	10.5%	6	7,722	16	275	285,456	3,816,251	27,272	2,722,725
30 June 2021	3,887	843	41,710	9.8%	3	7,716	19	235	281,222	3,799,467	28,622	2,712,237
29 June 2021	3,118	777	27,875	11.6%	1	7,713	20	215	277,335	3,781,887	25,928	2,701,195
28 June 2021	3,285	795	27,226	12.6%	0	7,712	20	202	274,217	3,765,379	30,287	2,691,775
27 June 2021	2,639	657	31,695	8.9%	1	7,712	17	196		3,747,510	29,939	2,679,357
26 June 2021	2,836	849	33,569	8.9%	3	7,711	18	197	268,293	3,730,101	39,730	2,666,827
25 June 2021	1,747	284	26,794	6.9%	2	7,708	16	188	265,457	3,709,801		2,647,397
24 June 2021	2,999			7.7%	5		17	177
23 June 2021	2,969	830	42,310	7.3%	5	7,701	18	170	260,711	3,682,620	31,746	2,617,450
22 June 2021	2,167	581	25,038	9.1%	4	7,696	18	171	257,742	3,664,571	32,917	2,602,753
21 June 2021	1,250			7.2%	0	7,692	14	158
20 June 2021	1,205	321	22,098	5.8%	0	7,692			254,325	3,630,589	35,652	2,571,637
19 June 2021	1,209	331		4.5%	2	7,692			253,120
18 June 2021	950	212	29,254	3.5%	2	7,690	12	128	251,911	3,591,638	39,649	2,535,803
17 June 2021	1,317	262	30,990	4.6%	4	7,688	12	140	250,961	3,571,726	42,695	2,516,066
16 June 2021	1,129		35,638	3.4%	1	7,684	15	133	248,515	3,551,739*		2,493,358
15 June 2021	974		20,761	5.0%	2	7,683	17	137	248,515	3,531,461	37,140	2,470,181
14 June 2021	761	210	15,781	5.2%	0	7,681	17	128	247,541	3,517,668	41,390	2,446,834
13 June 2021	1036*	230	22,856	5.0%	0	7,681			246,780	3,497,287	43,034	2,425,825
12 June 2021	1030*	297	26,650	4.1%	2	7,681			245,744	3,477,378	45,769	2,402,700
11 June 2021	1,104*	241	28,563	4.1%	0	7,679	13	132	244,714	3,459,063	47,911	2,375,246
10 June 2021	735	217	28,379	2.8%	1	7,679	14	124	243,610	3,441,217	50,272	2,345,181
9 June 2021	1,011	241	36,227	3.0%	1	7,678	14	121	242,875	3,422,431	50,057	2,313,695
8 June 2021	695	157	14,873	5.0%	0	7,677	12	121	241,864	3,403,866	48,489	2,282,203
7 June 2021	641		16,192	4.2%	0		12	122		3,386,321		2,251,259
6 June 2021	775	215	20,675	4.0%	0	7,677			240,528	3,365,779	44,883	2,227,493
5 June 2021	860	201	27,436	3.4%	1	7,677			239,753	3,345,842	51,814	2,202,547
4 June 2021	992	213	26,962	3.9%	2	7,676	8	116	238,893	3,326,005	53,145	2,170,570
3 June 2021	835	227	31,841	2.8%	4	7,674	8	110	237,901	3,305,812	50,992	2,137,618
2 June 2021	677	160	26,258	2.8%	1	7,670	10	114	237,066	3,286,261	49,917	2,106,177
1 June 2021	478	107	16,489	3.1%	0	7,669	10	106	236,389	3,267,290	47,130	2,075,231
28 May 2021	641	132	25,939	2.6%	2	7,668	6	90	234,312	3,196,051	49,965	1,971,006
3 May 2021	132		10,195	1.5%	0					2,824,955		1,326,599
1 April 2021	400	73	25,956	1.8%	8	7,610	21	215	218,432	2,493,327	42,984	399,062
27 March 2021	563	119	25,519	2.4%	6	7,584	26	283	216,705	2,358,807	50,875	294,714
25 March 2021	701	157	31,946	2.4%	10	7,572	32	310	215,599	2,285,711	50,083	263,236
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
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