Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

On 4 October:

• 758 new cases of COVID-19 reported; this is 13.3% of newly tested individuals
• 14,094 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results

During the week ending 4 October:

• 40,799 people newly tested – 4,633 positive
• 110,044 tests reported (20 tests per 1,000 population)

Since the start of the outbreak:

• a total of 801,319 people in Scotland have been tested. Of these people:
  • 32,209 were psitive
  • 769,110 were cnfirmed negative

• a total of 701,009 COVID-19 tests carried out through NHS labs and 1,018,712 tests through UKG Labs in Scotland have reported results

 Further information

• Public Health Scotland interactive dashboard provides detailed information on COVID-19 cases (where COVID-19 was confirmed), including a map showing the number of cases in local areas, trends for local authorities and NHS boards, and demographic information for Scotland
• data definitions and sources
• the data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the trends in daily data excel files. Data on total reported cases is available for NHS Boards.

• on 4 October there were 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends)
• in the week ending 27 September, 10 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate

Since the start of the outbreak:

• 2,530 people have died who have tested positive
• 4,257 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate
• 46% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 46% were in hospitals and 7% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 16 September)

Further information

• data definitions and sources – including explanations about the two different measures of deaths involving COVID-19
• further analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 (updated weekly)
• a monthly report on COVID-19 related deaths is published by 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)
• the data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the Trends in daily data excel files

• 210 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these 22 were in intensive care
• in the week ending 29 September, 128 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospital
• in the week ending 2 October there were 20 patients who have ever been confirmed COVID-19 admitted to intensive care
• 4,483 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March
• as at 30 September 1,030 people were delayed in hospital

Further information

• information on the daily number of COVID-19 admissions to hospital and ICU
• data definitions and sources
• the data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the Trends in daily data excel files. Data on number of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital and ICU is available for NHS Boards

• as at 30 September 92 (9%) adult care homes had a current case of suspected COVID-19
• in the week 21 - 27 September there were 32 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases among care home residents
• there have been 3,896 confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst residents of care homes for all ages since 9 March
• in the week ending 24 September at least 1,383 individual care home staff, and 170 residents were tested in care homes with a confirmed case of COVID-19.
• in the week ending 24 September at least 36,568 individual care home staff, and 1,581 residents were tested in care homes with no confirmed cases of COVID-19

Further information

• Additional information is available.
• Data definitions and sources
• The data published here weekly on care homes are available in the Trends in daily data excel file

• in the week ending 29 September on average, 1,587 NHS staff, or around 0.9% of the NHS workforce, reported absent each day for a range of reasons related to COVID-19
• in the week ending 29 September 511 staff were reported as absent in adult care homes due to COVID-19, based on returns received from 810 (75%) adult care homes. Staff absent due to COVID-19 represents 1.2% of all adult care home staff (42,474) for whom a return was provided.
• we have been notified by Health Boards or the Care Inspectorate of 7 deaths of healthcare workers and 13 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.

Further information

• The absence figures for NHS staff and care home staff are calculated in different ways and caution should be exercised in making comparisons – see data definitions and sources
• The data published weekly on NHS and care homes staff are available in the Trends in daily data excel file

On Wednesday 30 September 2020, provisional figures show that:

• there were 13,247 pupils absent either for all or part of the school day because of COVID-19 related reasons
• the overall attendance rate at local authority primary, secondary and special schools was 92.6%
• % of school openings where pupils were not in school for COVID-19 related reasons was 1.9%, and for non COVID-19 related reasons was 5.6%

Further information

• Data definitions and sources
• The data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the Trends in daily data excel files
• Further analysis, breakdowns, and maps relating to school and childcare attendance and absence (updated weekly)
• Information on cases in children

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. 

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

Public Health Scotland weekly statistical report

Public Health Scotland publish a weekly statistical report that presents data on COVID-19 across NHSScotland. As well as providing information on COVID-19 confirmed cases and admissions to hospital, it looks at some of the wider impacts of the virus on the healthcare system, including trends in COVID-19 related use of other NHS services such as NHS24 and Scottish Ambulance Service. It also presents statistics on Test and Protect and quarantining and demographic characteristics (age, sex, deprivation) of people affected by COVID-19. Weekly reports and accompanying interactive dashboards are available on the Public Health Scotland website.

COVID-19: modelling the epidemic in Scotland

The Scottish Government, like other governments around the world, is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. A key part of this response is to model the potential spread and level of the virus in Scotland, and to compare the Scottish experience to other parts of the UK and other countries around the world. The results of this work are used to help the Scottish Government and the wider public sector, and in particular the health service, plan and put in place what is needed to keep us safe and treat people who have virus e.g. to decide how many Intensive Care Beds (ICU) we need for COVID patients. Modelling reports are available on the Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic publications page.

Scottish Government COVID-19 four harms dashboard

The Scottish Government publishes a dashboard which brings together data and evidence on the broader impacts of COVID-19. These are referred to as the four harms of COVID-19:

• direct health impact
• wider health impacts
• societal impacts
• economic impacts

It is updated every Monday.