Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

On 22 November:

• 844 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 19,664 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results, of which
  • 1,061 (5.4%) were positive
  • 8,840 were from NHS Scotland labs
  • 10,824 were from the UK Government testing programme

During the week ending 22 November, in total:

• 46,684 people were newly tested
• 7,067 people tested positive for the first time
• 135,550 tests reported (25 tests per 1,000 population)
• 8,274 positive tests reported (6.1% of tests)

For the week 8 to 14 November, the ONS Covid-19 Infection Survey estimates that:

• 1 in 155 people in Scotland had the coronavirus (COVID-19) (95% credible interval: 1 in 225 to 1 in 115).
• this equates to around 33,800 people (95% credible interval: 23,600 to 45,300)

Since the start of the outbreak:

• a total of 1,133,037 people in Scotland have been tested at least once. Of these people:
  • 88,361 have tested psitive
  • 1,044,676 were cnfirmed negative
• a total of 1,009,522 COVID-19 tests carried out through NHS labs and 1,622,545 through UKG Labs in Scotland have reported results

Further information

• Public Health Scotland interactive dashboard provides detailed information on COVID-19 cases (where COVID-19 was confirmed), including a map showing the number of cases in local areas, trends for local authorities and NHS boards, and demographic information for Scotland
• data definitions and sources
• the data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the trends in daily data excel files. Data on total reported cases is available for NHS Boards.

• 7 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends)
• in the week ending 15 November, 278 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate 

Since the start of the outbreak:

• 3,503 people have died who have tested positive
• 5,135 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 15 November
• 42% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 51% were in hospitals and 7% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 15 November)

Further information

• data definitions and sources – including explanations about the two different measures of deaths involving COVID-19
• further analysis of deaths involving COVID-19 (updated weekly)
• a monthly report on COVID-19 related deaths is published by National Records of Scotland (NRS). This report provides a breakdown of deaths by age, sex, setting (hospital, care home or home) and area (NHS Board area and Local Authority)
• the data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the Trends in daily data excel files

• 1,170 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these 95 were in intensive care.
• In the week ending 18 November, 538 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospital.
• In the week ending 21 November there were 37 patients who have been confirmed with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care.
• 7,067 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March
• as at 18 November 1,063 people were delayed in hospital

Further information

• information on the daily number of COVID-19 admissions to hospital and ICU
• data definitions and sources
• the data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the trends in daily data excel files. Data on number of confirmed COVID-19 patients in hospital and ICU is available for NHS Boards

• as at 18 November, 141 (13%) adult care homes had a current case of suspected COVID-19
• in the week 9 - 15 November there were 296 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases among care home residents
• there have been 5,486 confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst residents of care homes for all ages since 9 March
• in the week 9 - 15 November at least 9,175 individual care home staff, and 4,087 residents were tested in care homes with a confirmed case of COVID-19
• in the week 9 - 15 November at least 32,847 individual care home staff were tested in care homes with no confirmed cases of COVID-19

Further information

• additional information is available
• data definitions and sources
• the data published here weekly on care homes are available in the trends in daily data excel file

• in the week ending 17 November, on average 3,237 NHS staff, or around 1.9% of the NHS workforce, reported absent each day for a range of reasons related to COVID-19
• in the week ending 17 November, 1,004 staff were reported as absent in adult care homes due to COVID-19, based on returns received from 803 (75%) adult care homes. Staff absent due to COVID-19 represents 2.4% of all adult care home staff (42,319) for whom a return was provided
• we have been notified by Health Boards or the Care Inspectorate of 8 deaths of healthcare workers and 16 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

On Tuesday 18 November 2020, provisional figures show that:

• there were 30,536 pupils absent either for all or part of the school day because of COVID-19 related reasons
• the overall attendance rate at local authority primary, secondary and special schools was 89.2%
• % of school openings where pupils were not in school for COVID-19 related reasons was 4.3%, and for non COVID-19 related reasons was 6.5%.

In the 7 days up to and including Thursday 12 November:

• 170 university students have been reported by universities as testing positive for COVID-19, an average of around 25 cases per day. We are aware of a total of 3,300 since the start of term
• 60 college students have been reported by colleges as testing positive for COVID-19, an average of around 10 cases per day. We are aware of a total of 370 since the start of term

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

Further information

• Data definitions and sources
• The data published daily on COVID-19 are available in the Trends in daily data excel files
• Further analysis, breakdowns, and maps relating to school and childcare attendance and absence (updated weekly)
• Information on cases in children

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.