NHS Highland sees no newly confirmed cases of coronavirus
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ONLY four fresh positive tests for Covid-19 were recorded across the whole of Scotland in the past day – and none in the NHS Highland area.
The Scottish Government's daily update also revealed that there were no further coronavirus fatalities recorded across the country in the past 24 hours.
The overall number of positive tests since the start of the pandemic now stands at 18,300, and of those 2488 have died.
As well as no freshly confirmed cases of Covid-19 in NHS Highland, the entire north of Scotland also went 24 hours without any new positive tests.
As of 2pm today there have been 376 confirmed diagnoses for Covid-19 in the NHS Highland area since the start of the outbreak. In NHS Grampian, the figure remained unchanged at 1426, as too did the numbers for Shetland (54), Orkney (nine) and the Western Isles (seven) as well as Tayside (1772).
The number of cases in intensive care also dropped in the Highlands and in Grampian. NHS Highland's number of intensive care cases fell below five, while in Grampian the number dropped from 38 to 37.
The falls were mirrored by Scotland as a whole, where the number of people in intensive care units with confirmed Covid-19 dropped from 424 to 384. Of those, only four were in intensive care.
