Fifty more Covid cases recorded across Caithness in latest seven-day period

At least 50 cases of Covid have been detected across Caithness in the latest seven-day period recorded by Public Health Scotland.

Caithness South remains the neighbourhood area with the county's highest individual total, with 22 cases in the period from December 12 to 18.

Public Health Scotland's interactive dashboard has a map giving the number of positive cases in individual neighbourhoods, seven of which are in Caithness.

Elsewhere in the county, Thurso West recorded 11 new cases of coronavirus, Wick North had six, Wick South and Caithness North West had four each, while Caithness North East had three.

If a neighbourhood has fewer than three positive cases, the number is presented as 0-2 "to help protect patient confidentiality". This was the case in Thurso East, meaning there could have been zero, one or two positive cases.

There were 44 cases in the Sutherland South neighbourhood, 13 in Sutherland East and four in Sutherland North and West.

Public Health Scotland reported 789 positive cases across the Highland local authority area during the latest seven-day period, with a seven-day rate per 100,000 population of 335.1 for the region as a whole.

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