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Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Updated at 2pm to provide the latest data on COVID-19 in Scotland. On Saturday and Sunday, only the headline statistics on new cases, test positivity rate, deaths and vaccinations will be updated. On Monday, the update will include the latest detailed daily data for that day, and Saturday and Sunday.

Published:
26 Jun 2021
Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Scottish numbers: 26 June 2021

Summary

  • 2,836 new cases of COVID-19 reported
  • 33,569 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
    • 8.9% of these were positive
  • 3 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
  • 18 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
  • 197 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
  • 3,730,101 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,666,827 have received their second dose

As reported yesterday, Public Health Scotland (PHS) are aware of an ongoing delay in results from the Glasgow Lighthouse laboratory. The laboratory is continuing to issue results as tests are processed whilst investigating and resolving the cause of the delay.

Local area data

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

If you have any questions on the PHS dashboard data please contact PHS at: PHS.Covid19Data&Analytics@phs.scot

Full breakdown

Cases and testing

 

On 25 June:

  • 1,747 new cases of COVID-19 reported
  • 26,794 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results, of which
    • 6.9% were positive
    • 14,929 were from NHS Scotland labs
    • 11,739 were from the UK Government testing programme

During the week ending 25 June, in total:

  • 57,903 people were newly tested
  • 13,546 people tested positive for the first time
  • 204,581 tests reported (37 tests per 1,000 population)
  • 14,290 positive tests reported (7.0% of tests)

Since the start of the outbreak, as at 25 June:

  • a total of 2,199,742 people in Scotland have been tested at least once. Of these people:
    • 265,457 have tested positive
    • 1,934,285 were confirmed negative
  • a total of 3,214,746 COVID-19 tests carried out through NHS labs and  3,744,543 through UKG Labs in Scotland have reported results.

PHS are investigating a potential delay in laboratory processing of specimens in the Lighthouse labs, which resulted in yesterday’s specimen numbers being lower than might otherwise been expected by an estimated 800-1,110 cases based on historical reporting patterns.

For the week 13 to 19 June 2021, the ONS Covid-19 Infection Survey estimates that:

  • 1 in 220 people in the community population in Scotland had the coronavirus (COVID-19) (95% credible interval: 1 in 310 to 1 in 160)
  • this equates to around 24,400 people (95% credible interval: 16,800 to 33,500)

Further information

Deaths

 
  • on 25 June, 2 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
  • in the week ending 20 June, 13 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate

Since the start of the outbreak:

  • 7,708 people have died who have tested positive as at 25 June
  • 10,150 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 20 June
  • 33% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 60% were in hospitals and 7% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 20 June)

Further information

Hospitals and ICU

 
  • 188 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 16 were in intensive care
    • in addition, yesterday 2 confirmed COVID-19 patient was in intensive care longer than 28 days
  • in the week ending 21 June, 202 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to hospital
  • in the week ending 24 June, 17 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to intensive care
  • 16,229 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020
  • as at 23 June, 1,227 people were delayed in hospital

Further information

Vaccination

 

As at 7:30 am on 25 June:

  • 3,709,801 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 2,647,397 have received their second dose

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.
  • more information including vaccination breakdowns by sex, age, location (NHS Health Board and local authority) and the JCVI priority groups are available on Public Health Scotland’s interactive dashboard.
  • see the vaccinations data technical note for more information on how the vaccinations data is collected and reported.

COVID-19 Vaccine supply data

As of Monday 21 June:

  • total number of doses allocated: 6,974,790
  • total number of doses delivered: 6,445,570

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 21 June 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 20 June 2021

Care homes

 
  • as at 23 June, 30 (3%) adult care homes had a current case of suspected COVID-19
  • in the week 14-20 June there were 5 new confirmed positive COVID‑19 cases among care home residents
  • there have been 10,212 confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst residents of care homes for all ages since 9 March 2020

Further information

NHS and care home staff

 
  • in the week ending 22 June, on average 1,711 NHS staff, or around 1.0% of the NHS workforce, reported absent each day for a range of reasons related to COVID-19
  • as at 22 June, 427 staff were reported as absent in adult care homes due to COVID-19, based on returns received from 738 (69%) adult care homes. Staff absent due to COVID-19 represents 1.1% of all adult care home staff (39,187) for whom a return was provided
  • we have been notified by Health Boards or the Care Inspectorate of 21 deaths of healthcare workers and 28 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

 

On Wednesday 23 June:

  • the percentage of school openings (i.e. half days) that showed pupils were in attendance was reported as being 78.4%, of which 0.8% was reported as planned home learning
  • the percentage of school openings (i.e. half days) that showed pupils were not in school because of non Covid-19 related reasons (including exclusions) was 15.8%
  • the percentage of school openings (i.e. half days) that showed pupils were not in school because of Covid-19 related reasons was 5.8%

In the 7 days up to and including Thursday 17 June:

  • 70 university students have been reported by universities as testing positive for COVID-19. We are aware of 1,320 students testing positive in semester 2 (January), with a total of 5,310 since the start of the academic year (September)
  • 40 college students have been reported by colleges as testing positive for COVID-19. We are aware of 470 students testing positive in semester 2 (January), with a total of 1,060 since the start of the academic year (September)
  • numbers include all known students testing positive; including those in halls and those not on campus

(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 atTrends in daily data. Also available as open data at https://statistics.gov.scot.

Occasionally we publish one-off pieces of data and information when there is public interest in making them available. An example of this was when we released figures to show the percentage of reported cases that were likely to be the variant (VOC-202012/01). Please see our additional data and information page for more detail. 

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, or have been vaccinated
  • the average number of new infections per week over the course of the study