Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

Scottish COVID-19 test numbers: 21 April 2020

A total of 41,699 people in Scotland have been tested. Of these:

• 33,027 were confirmed negative
• 8,672 were positive
• 985 patients who tested positive have died

Find out about the process for reporting COVID-19 deaths. 

Management information reported by NHS Boards shows

• 166 patients were in intensive care last night, with 159 of those having tested positive
• there were 1,866 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	623	121	10
Borders	240	54	9
Dumfries and Galloway	231**	37	5
Fife	561	138	6
Forth Valley	562	91	*
Grampian	519	91	10
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	2,085	583	60
Highland	201	68	5
Lanarkshire	1,076	240	22
Lothian	1,426	322	29
Orkney	6	*	*
Shetland	52	6	*
Tayside	1,084	98	7
Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)	6	*	*
Golden Jubilee National Hospital		12	*

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

* = less than five

** due to technical issues we have not received full data on cases or tests from Dumfries and Galloway health board today. These figures will be updated tomorrow.

Other management information

On 20 April 2020 there were:

• 3,555 calls to 111 and 520 calls to the Coronavirus Helpline. The number of calls to 111 includes all calls, whether or not they relate to COVID-19
• 1,565 Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) attendances, of which 353 were for suspected COVID-19. SAS took 205 people to hospital with suspected COVID-19
• 619 people delayed in hospital. This is 993 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.
• 475 (44%) 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 6,971 staff, or around 4.2% 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.