Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Scottish COVID-19 test numbers: 20 April 2020

A total of 40,700 people in Scotland have been tested. Of these:

• 32,250 were confirmed negative
• 8,450 were positive
• 915 patients who tested positive have died

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Management information reported by NHS Boards shows

• 169 patients were in intensive care last night, with 167 of those having tested positive
• there were 1,809 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	604	129	11
Borders	239	55	7
Dumfries and Galloway	231	37	5
Fife	542	120	5
Forth Valley	542	89	*
Grampian	490	84	9
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	2,020	603	64
Highland	198	58	5
Lanarkshire	1,051	238	24
Lothian	1,399	268	27
Orkney	6	*	*
Shetland	51	*	*
Tayside	1,071	110	8
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 19 April 2020 there were:

• 6,616 calls to 111 and 152 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 369 were for suspected COVID-19. SAS took 216 people to hospital with suspected COVID-19
• 628 people delayed in hospital as at 17 April. This is 984 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.
• 462 (43%) 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 7,510 staff, or around 4.5% 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.