Coronavirus – December figures - The Edinburgh Reporter

Public Health Scotland publishes data on Covid-19 in Scotland each day. Today’s figures were announced by the First Minister at a media briefing from St Andrew’s House, called specially in light of the increased numbers of the omicron variant.

The First Minister said she wanted to level with everyone in Scotland and set out the current position on cases of the new omicron variant – which could be the variant which rises more quickly than any other in the past. Perhaps warning that restrictions might be inevitable, Ms Sturgeon said that she will join a four nations COBR meeting later and will ask again for financial help from the UK Government, perhaps envisaging that some businesses might be affected by closures.

She explained that the evidence shows that the new variant is more transmissible and may lead to a rise in the R number within days. Recently that has been steady at 1 but it is expected to rise to 2 or 3. There were 9 confirmed cases of the omicron variant only ten days ago but as at now there are 110 confirmed cases, and Ms Sturgeon said that this could very well be the tip of the iceberg.

Ms Sturgeon said: “Even if the variant is generally a little less severe for most people – and let me stress we still don’t know that to be the case – but even if it is, for some people it will still cause serious illness, hospitalisation, and, tragically, some people will die.”

The continued: “All of this means that Omicron is an immensely concerning development, even if it does prove to be slightly less severe than Delta. It’s concerning for Scotland, for the UK, and indeed, for the world.”

Public Health Scotland asked everyone yesterday to defer plans for work Christmas parties.

Any figures marked with * are affected by IT or other reporting issues.

Deaths involving Covid-19 in Week 48: 29 November – 5 December 2021

As at 5 December 2021, 12,216 deaths have been registered in Scotland where the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was mentioned on the death certificate, according to statistics published today by National Records of Scotland (NRS).

In the week 29 November to 5 December, 88 deaths were registered that mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate, a decrease of 10 deaths from the previous week.

22 deaths were aged under 65, 16 were aged 65-74, and there were 50 deaths in people aged 75 or over.

Glasgow City (12 deaths), Falkirk (7 deaths) and North Lanarkshire (7 deaths) had the highest numbers of deaths at council level. In total, 26 (out of 32) council areas had at least one death last week.

75 deaths were in hospitals, 4 were in care homes, and 9 were at home or in a non-institutional setting.

Pete Whitehouse, Director of Statistical Services, said: “The latest figures show that last week there were 88 deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. This is 10 fewer deaths than the previous week.”

“The number of deaths from all causes registered in Scotland in this week was 1,314, which is 184, or 16%, more than the five year average.”

DATE	DAILY CASES	LOTHIAN	NEW TESTS	TEST POSITIVITY RATE	DEATHS REPORTED TODAY	DEATH STATISTICS ACCORDING TO DAILY MEASUREMENT	ICU	HOSPITAL	POSITIVE CASES DURING PANDEMIC	FIRST DOSES OF VACCINE IN LAST DAY	SECOND DOSES OF VACCINE IN LAST DAY	TOTAL BOOSTER VACCINE DOSES	TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE – FIRST DOSES	TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE – TWO DOSES

10 December 2021	5,018			9.3%	19	9,707	40	573				2,000,915	4,358,725	3,967,477
9 December 2021
8 December 2021	3,077	498	40,401	8.1%	11	9,672	41	582	749,620			1,961,588	4,357,567	3,965,437
7 December 2021	3,060*	537	35,562*	9.2%*	12	9,661	38	576	746,549	999	1,522	1,922,604	4,355,063	3,962,203
6 December 2021	3,894*	731	32,166*	12.8%*	0	9,649	43	591	743,496	1,960	2,519	1,889,285	4,354,064	3,960,681
5 December 2021
4 December 2021
3 December 2021
2 December 2021	3,002	432	42,819	7.4%	27	9,618	48	680	733,329	1,178	1,806	1,755,694	4,349,058	3,953,170
1 December 2021
30 November 2021	2,569	432	23,761	11.5%	10	9,572	54	706	727,549	881	1,253	1,687,792	4,346,736	3,949,736
23 November 2021	2,527	418	23,306	11.6%	17	9,495	60	743	709,399	885	1,186	1,469,423	4,340,162	3,940,314
22 November 2021	2481*	385	23,083*	11.4%	0	9,478	59	750	706,874	955	1,179	1,437,823	4,339.277	3,939,128
20 November 2021	2,756	458	31,575	9.3%	11	9,478	61	767	701,719	1,208	1,499	1,375,779	4,337,089	3,939,594



17 November 2021	3,360		40,412	8.8%	13	9,419	57	774	691,939	1,261	1,392	1,270,010	4,332,835	3,931,709
14 November 2021	3,077	436	31,384	10.3%	1	9,389	56	765	683,530	703	565	1,183,769	4,327,340	3,924,870
10 November 2021	3,852	496	44,434	9.1%	19	9,332	61	778	670,729	867	1,478	1,050,599	4,325,307	3,920,006
9 November 2021	2,233	355	19,459	12.0%	20	9,313	57	753	666,880	891	1,318	1,017,359	4,324,440	3,918,528
8 November 2021
7 November 2021	2,908		27,540	11.1%	2	9,293	57	793	662,644	807	719	97,945	4,321,382	3,914,425
6 November 2021
5 November 2021
4 November 2021
3 NOVEMBER 2021	3,495*	477	49,462*	7.5%*	20	9,209	63	935	651,169	1,400	1,570	755,476	4,321,770	3,911,823
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