Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Scottish numbers: 24 May 2020

A total of 101,713 people in Scotland have been tested through NHS labs to date. Of these:

• 86,612 were confirmed negative
• 15,101 were positive

This will be an underestimate of the number of cases. Not everyone with the virus will display symptoms and not all those with symptoms will be tested.

Of the people who have tested positive:

• 3,560 inpatients have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020
• 845 were in hospital last night: 33 of whom were in intensive care, with another 11 with suspected COVID-19 in intensive care
• 2,270 have died

Previous data for the figures reported are available at: Trends in daily data

Data by health board

Health Board	Total confirmed cases to date	People in hospital at midnight (confirmed)	People in intensive care at midnight (confirmed or suspected)
Ayrshire and Arran	1019	25	*
Borders	322	11	*
Dumfries and Galloway	258	*	*
Fife	826	69	*
Forth Valley	917	14	*
Grampian	1224	72	*
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	3876	379	12
Highland	335	10	*
Lanarkshire	1934	83	*
Lothian	2665	165	8
Orkney	7	*	*
Shetland	54	*	*
Tayside	1658	13	*
Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)	6	*	*
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	n/a	*	*

Please note hospital numbers are by location of hospital, not residence.

* less than five

n/a – no data for Golden Jubilee. Number of cases are reported by health board.

Numbers in hospital were previously reported in this table as the total of confirmed and suspected. However from 5 May 2020 onwards these are confirmed only. This is due to discontinuity in suspected cases due to increased levels of screening. 

Testing

On 23 May there were:

• 2,886 tests carried out by NHS Scotland in hospitals, care homes or the community, making a total of 145,824 COVID-19 tests through NHS labs to date
• In addition, there were 1,225 drive through and mobile tests carried out by the Regional Testing Centres in Scotland bringing the total to 50,470 tests to date

As of 18 May, there were:

• At least 32,166 key workers or symptomatic family members had been tested through NHS laboratories. Of those tested approximately 57% were healthcare workers or their families, 34% were social care staff and family members and 8% were from the rest of the public sector, including the prison service and firefighters

Community health and care

On 23 May there were:

• 7,122 calls to 111 and 89 calls to the Coronavirus Helpline. The number of calls to 111 includes all calls, whether or not they relate to COVID-19
• 1,437 Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) attendances, of which 267 were for suspected COVID-19. SAS took 174 people to hospital with suspected COVID-19

As at 21 May, there were:

• 680 people delayed in hospital. This is 932 less than the baseline period (04/03 weekly return)

Care homes

On 23 May there were:

• 485 (45%) adult care homes with a current case of suspected COVID-19. At least one resident in the care home has exhibited symptoms during the last 14 days
• 655 (60%) adult care homes which have lodged at least one notification for suspected COVID-19 to the Care Inspectorate since the start of the epidemic. 482 of these care homes have reported more than one case of suspected COVID-19
• 5,635 cumulative cases of suspected COVID-19 in care homes. This is an increase of 42 suspected cases on the previous day

Health and social care staff

• 6,056 NHS staff, or around 3.7% of the NHS workforce, reported as absent on 23 May due to a range of reasons related to COVID-19
• 3,381 staff were reported as absent in adult care homes due to COVID-19, based on returns received from 879 (81%) adult care homes as at 19 May. Staff absent due to COVID-19 represents 7.3% of all adult care home staff (46,272) for whom a return was provided

The absence figures for NHS staff and care home staff are calculated in different ways and caution should be exercised in making comparisons – see the data sources and definitions document for full details. 

Deaths of health and social care workers related to COVID-19

As at 19 May, we have been notified by health boards or the Care Inspectorate of 7 deaths of healthcare workers and 9 deaths of social care workers, related to COVID-19. We are not able to confirm how many of these staff contracted COVID-19 through their work. We will update this information every Wednesday.

About this data and other data sources

Previous data is available at: Trends in daily data. Also available as open data at https://statistics.gov.scot.

The data reported is management information based on a range of operational systems. While checks are completed before publication to ensure data robustness, due to the speed of reporting these data are not currently subject to the full range of processes and quality assurance that would be required for Official Statistics. For more information about the data please see Data definitions and sources.

The latest numbers will publish at 2pm each day. 

More data on COVID-19 deaths

A weekly report on COVID-19 related deaths (including those where COVID-19 is suspected) is available from National Records of Scotland (NRS). This report provides a breakdown of deaths by age, sex, setting (hospital, care home or home) and area (NHS Board area and Local Authority). It is updated every Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/covid19stats

More data on people affected by COVID-19

Public Health Scotland reports on the demographic characteristics (age, sex, deprivation) of people affected by COVID-19. It also looks at some of the wider impacts of the virus on the healthcare system, comparing recent trends in activity with historic norms. It is updated every Wednesday.  
Read more: https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/population-health/covid-19

Related information

General information about coronavirus is available at: www.gov.scot/coronavirus