Number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in NHS Highland area increases by four to 317
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FOUR further Covid-19 tests in the NHS Highland area have come back positive, raising the region's number of confirmed cases to 317.
The slight increase came as the number of people confirmed as having the virus across Scotland passed the 13,000 mark – rising to 13,149. That figure followed an increase of 225 cases since yesterday.
A further 49 people who tested positive for Covid-19 have also died, taking the death toll to 1811.
But the number of people receiving hospital treatment for the virus at NHS Highland sites continued to fall, dropping by three to nine. This was mirrored at a national level where the number of people with the virus in all Scottish hospitals dropped from 1587 to 1584. Of those, 84 were in intensive care.
Elsewhere in the north, the absence of new cases in Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles continued for another day.
Meanwhile, NHS Grampian's total number of cases passed through the 1000 mark after increasing by 28 cases overnight, to 1001. Its number of hospitalised cases fell slightly, however, dropping four to 89.
Another 1657 drive-through and mobile tests were carried out by regional testing centres (RTCs) in Scotland, bringing the total number of tests carried out to date through RTCs to 23,426.
