Official correction means no new coronavirus cases confirmed in NHS Highland area
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THE number of confirmed positive tests for coronavirus in the NHS Highland area has actually fallen – after the Scottish Government corrected its daily figures.
The overall total number of positive tests in the region stood at 338 today – down on yesterday's figure of 339 after one case was re-attributed to a neighbouring health board, having been wrongly assigned to NHS Highland.
The number of hospital patients in the region with confirmed Covid-19 fell by one to eight.
The figures came against a backdrop of 49 new positive tests around Scotland as a whole, and nine deaths among those with confirmed diagnoses. The last time the daily death toll was in single figures was in March.
The number of people being treated in hospital having tested positive fell from 706 to 658, and the intensive care patient total dropped by two to 18.
There have now been 15,553 positive tests in Scotland since the start of the outbreak, and 2395 of those have died.
In the north, there have been no freshly confirmed cases of the virus in Orkney, Shetland or the Western Isles
NHS Grampian reported one newly confirmed case, rising to 1283. Its number of hospital patients increased by two to 66.
