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Eighteen new positive tests for Covid-19 detected in NHS Highland health board area; rise came as 542 coronavirus cases were detected across Scotland in the past day


By Philip Murray

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Coronavirus update.
Coronavirus update.

EIGHTEEN new cases of Covid-19 have been identified across the NHS Highland health board area.

The region’s cumulative number of infections rose from 4655 to 4673 when the latest update was published on Tuesday.

The number of people receiving treatment for the virus in the area’s hospitals fell by one, to 19, last night. Of those, five were in intensive care. This was also down one from the previous update.

There were 542 positive tests for Covid-19 across Scotland in the past 24 hours – equivalent to 4.4 per cent of all tests.

Some 784 people were receiving treatment for the virus in the country’s hospitals last night – down 40 from the day before.

Of those, some 71 were in intensive care, a figure unchanged from Monday.

And sadly there have been 33 further deaths among people who tested positive for the virus in the past 28 days.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the north of Scotland, there were once again no fresh infections in the Northern Isles.

NHS Eileanan Siar reported one additional positive test – taking its overall tally to 272.

A dozen new infections were identified in NHS Grampian, which has now reported 13,488 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.

And there were 29 new infections in the NHS Tayside area – for a running total of 13,217.

There have now been 203,012 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across Scotland since the outbreak began last spring.

More than 1.63 million people have now received their first vaccination jag in Scotland. Almost 85,000 have had their second.

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