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Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Published: 18 Feb 2021
Directorate:
Chief Medical Officer Directorate
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Coronavirus in Scotland, Health and social care

This is updated each day to provide the latest available data on COVID-19 in Scotland.

Published:
18 Feb 2021
Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Scottish numbers: 18 February 2021

Summary

  • 685 new cases of COVID-19 reported
  • 21,280 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results – 3.8% of these were positive
  • 57 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
  • 95 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
  • 1,261 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
  • 1,354,966 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 24,169 have received their second dose

Local area data

  • Public Health Scotland’s interactive dashboard now provides a map showing the number of cases in local areas, as well as trends for local authorities and NHS boards

Full breakdown

Cases and testing

 

On 18 February:

  • 685 new cases of COVID-19 reported
  • 21,280 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results, of which
    • 816 (3.8%) were positive
    • 16,063 were from NHS Scotland labs
    • 5,217 were from the UK Government testing programme

During the week ending 18 February, in total:

  • 28,285 people were newly tested
  • 5,779 people tested positive for the first time
  • 125,385 tests reported (23 tests per 1,000 population)
  • 6,745 positive tests reported (5.4% of tests)

Since the start of the outbreak, as at 18 February:

  • a total of 1,641,860 people in Scotland have been tested at least once. Of these people:
    • 194,954 have tested positive
    • 1,446,906 were confirmed negative
  • a total of 1,766,556 COVID-19 tests carried out through NHS labs and 2,600,427 through UKG Labs in Scotland have reported results

For the week 31 January to 6 February 2021, the ONS Covid-19 Infection Survey estimates that:

  • 1 in 150 people in Scotland had the coronavirus (COVID-19) (95% credible interval: 1 in 175 to 1 in 130).
  • this equates to around 35,400 people (95% credible interval: 30,100 to 41,000)

Latest information on incidence of the new variant of the COVID-19 virus in Scotland is included in the weekly PHS COVID-19 statistical report

There is evidence that the new variant of COVID-19 originally reported from the South of England is circulating widely in Scotland. A good proxy for this new variant are samples tested on the assay used in the UK Government laboratories that give a particular profile of results on the genes tested. Data from Public Health Scotland show that of the new cases reported from the UK Government Laboratories on 2 January 2021, 47.5% of these cases had the profile of the new variant compared to 42.8% reported on 28 December. Access the latest data in the PHS COVID-19 statistical report.

Further information

Deaths

 
  • on 18 February, 57 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
  • in the week ending 14 February, 323 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate

Since the start of the outbreak:

  • 6,885 people have died who have tested positive as at 18 February
  • 9,053 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 14 February
  • 35% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 58% were in hospitals and 6% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 14 February)

Further information

Hospitals and ICU

 
  • 1,261 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 95 were in intensive care.
    • in addition, yesterday 30 confirmed COVID-19 patients were in intensive care longer than 28 days
  • in the week ending 14 February, 529 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospital.
  • in the week ending 17 February, there were 88 patients who have been confirmed with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care.
  • 13,063 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March.
  • as at 17 February, 1,091 people were delayed in hospital.

Further information

Vaccination

 

As at 8:30am on Thursday 18 February:

  • 1,354,966 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 24,169 have received their second dose

Latest progress on first doses for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) priority groups as at 8:30am on Thursday 18 February:

  • 30,501 care home residents (exceeding the initial target for residents in older adult care homes and 95% of residents in all care homes)
  • 41,501 care home staff (92% of staff in older adult care homes and 80% of staff in all care homes)
  • 286,355 frontline health and social care workers exceeding the initial target provided by Health Boards.
  • 148,168 people who are Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (83% of those on the shielding list).

Latest progress for each age group on first doses shows we have vaccinated:

  • 272,333 people aged 80 or over (exceeding estimated population based on the latest mid-2019 population estimates)
  • 203,726 people aged 75-79 (exceeding estimated population)
  • 256,381 people aged 70-74 (92%)
  • 207,534 people aged 65-69 (69%)

Further information

  • this is management information and is subject to change on any given day. It covers progress from when the first vaccines against COVID-19 were administered on Tuesday 8 December.
  • see the vaccinations data technical note for more information on how the vaccinations data is collected and provisional population estimates used to assess and report vaccine uptake for the JCVI priority groups. We know that the number of people in each group may change so there is ongoing review and quality assurance, and the population estimates used to calculate vaccine uptake may change.
  • more information on the number of individuals vaccinated is included in the weekly PHS COVID-19 statistical report

COVID-19 Vaccine supply data

As of Monday 15th February:

  • total number of doses allocated: 1,618,320
  • Total number of doses delivered: 1,520,690

Further information

  • total number of doses allocated refers to the number of doses that have been made available by Public Health England to the Scottish Government for ordering, and is the cumulative amount allocated up to 11:55 15th February 2021.
  • total number of doses delivered refers to the number of doses that have been delivered from Public Health England to the ownership of the Scottish Government, and is the cumulative amount delivered by 23:59 14th February 2021.

Care homes

 
  • as at 17 February, 88 (8%) adult care homes had a current case of suspected COVID-19
  • in the week 8 – 14 February there were 117 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases among care home residents
  • there have been 9,849 confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst residents of care homes for all ages since 9 March

Further information

NHS and care home staff

 
  • in the week ending 16 February, on average 4,003 NHS staff, or around 2.3% of the NHS workforce, reported absent each day for a range of reasons related to COVID-19.
  • as at 17 February, 997 staff were reported as absent in adult care homes due to COVID-19, based on returns received from 724 (67%) adult care homes. Staff absent due to COVID-19 represents 2.6% of all adult care home staff (37,831) for whom a return was provided.
  • we have been notified by Health Boards or the Care Inspectorate of 19 deaths of healthcare workers and 25 deaths of social care workers, related to COVID-19, since the start of the pandemic. 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

Education

 

It is estimated that 8.1% of pupils were attending local authority schools on Tuesday 16 February 2021.

By school sector, 11.3% of pupils in primary schools, 3.3% of pupils in secondary schools and 21.8% of pupils in special schools were attending local authority schools on Tuesday 16 February 2021.

In the 7 days up to and including Thursday 10 December:

  • 90 university students have been reported by universities as testing positive for COVID-19, an average of around 15 cases per day. We are aware of a total of 3,900 since the start of term.
  • 25 college students have been reported by colleges as testing positive for COVID-19, an average of around 5 cases per day. We are aware of a total of 560 since the start of term.
  • cases reported by universities and colleges will recommence as term 2 gets underway.

(See data definitions and sources for further context on these numbers).

Further information

About these data

 

The data reported are 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.

Other data sources

 

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.

Isolate and support data

We publish a monthly summary of management information provided by local authorities on support provided for self-isolation and to those in wider need during the coronavirus pandemic.

ONS Covid-19 Infection Survey

The Scottish results of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) COVID-19 Infection Survey are published on the Scottish Government website, and on the ONS website alongside results for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The survey aims to establish:

  • how many people test positive for COVID-19 infection at a given point in time, regardless of whether they report experiencing coronavirus symptoms (estimates first published on 23 October)
  • the number of people who test positive for antibodies, to indicate how many people are ever likely to have had the infection (estimates first published on 24 November)
  • the average number of new infections per week over the course of the study

As the sample size is increased in subsequent weeks, further analysis will become available.