Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Scottish COVID-19 test numbers: 19 April 2020

A total of 39,612 people in Scotland have been tested. Of these:

• 31,425 were confirmed negative
• 8,187 were positive
• 903 patients who tested positive have died (an increase of 10 on the previous day)

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Management information reported by NHS Boards shows

• 174 patients were in intensive care last night, with 170 of those having tested positive
• there were 1,797 people in Scottish hospitals with either confirmed or suspected COVID-19 (including those in intensive care)

Health board	Positive cases	People in hospital at midnight (confirmed or suspected)	People in intensive care at midnight (confirmed or suspected)
Ayrshire and Arran	586	122	10
Borders	237	57	6
Dumfries and Galloway	229	35	5
Fife	532	127	5
Forth Valley	509	78	*
Grampian	464	80	13
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	1949	593	62
Highland	197	65	6
Lanarkshire	1022	249	27
Lothian	1344	279	29
Orkney	5	*	*
Shetland	51	*	*
Tayside	1056	98	6
Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)	6	*	*
Golden Jubilee National Hospital		10	*

Note: hospital numbers are by location of hospital, not residence.

* = less than five

Other management information

On 18 April 2020 there were:

• 7,415 calls to 111 and 193 calls to the Coronavirus Helpline. The number of calls to 111 includes all calls, whether or not they relate to COVID-19
• 1,451Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) attendances, of which 404 were for suspected COVID-19. SAS took 250 people to hospital with suspected COVID-19
• 616 people delayed in hospital. This is 996 less than the baseline period (04/03 weekly return). An initial target to reduce delays by 400 by the end of March and a further target of reducing by a further 500 by the end of April have now been met.
• 459 (42%) adult care homes which had lodged at least one notification for suspected COVID-19 to the Care Inspectorate. It is important to note that not all of these care homes will still have outbreaks; additional data will be published shortly on the number that currently have outbreaks.
• a total of 7,342 staff, or around 4.4% of the NHS workforce, are reporting as absent due to a range of reasons related to COVID-19

Data and charts showing the trends for Scotland for the above data.

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The latest numbers will publish at 2pm each day.