Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland

On 6 March:

• 555 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 22,992 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results, of which
  • 684 (3.0%) were positive
  • 12,383 were from NHS Scotland labs
  • 10,609 were from the UK Government testing programme

During the week ending 6 March, in total:

• 27,600 people were newly tested
• 3,596 people tested positive for the first time
• 133,406 tests reported (24 tests per 1,000 population)
• 4,280 positive tests reported (3.2% of tests)

Since the start of the outbreak, as at 6 March:

• A total of 1,709,316 people in Scotland have been tested at least once. Of these people:
  • 205,108 have tested positive
  • 1,504,208 were confirmed negative
• A total of 1,953,356 COVID-19 tests carried out through NHS labs and 2,724,624 through UKG Labs in Scotland have reported results

For the week 21 to 27 February 2021, the ONS Covid-19 Infection Survey estimates that:

• 1 in 335 people in Scotland had the coronavirus (COVID-19) (95% credible interval: 1 in 480 to 1 in 250).
• this equates to around 15,600 people (95% credible interval: 11,000 to 21,300)

Latest information on incidence of the new variant of the COVID-19 virus in Scotland is included in the weekly PHS COVID-19 statistical report

There is evidence that the new variant of COVID-19 originally reported from the South of England is circulating widely in Scotland. A good proxy for this new variant are samples tested on the assay used in the UK Government laboratories that give a particular profile of results on the genes tested. Data from Public Health Scotland show that of the new cases reported from the UK Government Laboratories on 2 January 2021, 47.5% of these cases had the profile of the new variant compared to 42.8% reported on 28 December. Access the latest data in the PHS COVID-19 statistical report.

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.

• On 6 March, 12 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• from March 3, 2021, PHS have adopted an improved method for linking daily confirmed COVID-19 cases with deaths reported through the National Records of Scotland. As a result of this methodologic improvement, an additional 172 confirmed COVID-19 deaths were identified as having occurred within 28 days of a first positive COVID test result since the start of the outbreak. These have now been incorporated into the cumulative total. The Heads of Statistics for Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland decided the timing of release for this additional data based on the need to assure quality of the numbers for publication.
• in the week ending 28 February, 227 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate

Since the start of the outbreak:

• 7,421 people have died who have tested positive as at 6 March (including the additional 172 deaths identified by PHS on 3 March, and an additional 3 recently registered deaths that were identified by PHS on 4 March)
• 9,580 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 28 February
• 34% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 59% were in hospitals and 6% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 28 February)

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

• 639 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 63 were in intensive care.
  • In addition, yesterday 27 confirmed COVID-19 patients were in intensive care longer than 28 days
• In the week ending 02 March, 392 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospital.
• In the week ending 05 March, there were 41 patients who have been confirmed with COVID-19 admitted to intensive care.
• 14,133 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020.
• As at 3 March, 1,001 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 7:30am on Saturday 6 March:

• 1,743,869 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 114,081 have received their second dose

Latest progress on first doses for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) priority groups as at 8:30am on Saturday 6 March:

• 32,107 care home residents (exceeding the initial targets for residents in older adult care homes and residents in all care homes)
• 45,469 care home staff (exceeding the initial target for staff in older adult care homes and 87% of staff in all care homes)
• 308,189 frontline health and social care workers exceeding the initial target provided by Health Boards.
• 162,033 people who are Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (90% of those on the shielding list)

Latest progress on second doses for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) priority groups as at 8:30am on Saturday 6 March:

• 17,258 second dose vaccinations of care homes residents (58% of residents in older adult care homes and 54% of residents in all care homes).

From Friday 26 February 2021, Public Health Scotland (PHS) launched a new section on their COVID-19 dashboard which provides daily vaccinations data. This includes:

• Total vaccinations – daily count and daily cumulative total and dose 1 or 2
• Vaccination by age group and sex including percentage of population who have received 1st dose
• Vaccination by location – NHS Health Board and local authority level

The PHS dashboard will continue to be developed, with vaccination by other JCVI priority groups added at a later date.

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.
• see the vaccinations data technical note for more information on how the vaccinations data is collected and provisional population estimates used to assess and report vaccine uptake for the JCVI priority groups. We know that the number of people in each group may change so there is ongoing review and quality assurance, and the population estimates used to calculate vaccine uptake may change.
• more information on the number of individuals vaccinated is included in the weekly PHS COVID-19 statistical report

COVID-19 Vaccine supply data

As of Monday 1 March:

• total number of doses allocated: 2,138,450
• total number of doses delivered: 1,886,160

Further information

• Data definitions and sources

• 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 1 March 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 28 February 2021.

• as at 3 March, 61 (6%) adult care homes had a current case of suspected COVID-19
• in the week 22 – 28 February there were 71 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases among care home residents
• there have been 10,062 confirmed cases of COVID-19 amongst residents of care homes for all ages since 9 March 2020

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
• from 20 January 2021 data on testing for COVID-19 in adult care homes in Scotland can be found within the PHS weekly statistical report. The last update for this data published by the Scottish Government on 13 January 2021 is available. 

• in the week ending 2 March, on average 3,679 NHS staff, or around 2.1% of the NHS workforce, reported absent each day for a range of reasons related to COVID-19.
• as at 2 March, 947 staff were reported as absent in adult care homes due to COVID-19, based on returns received from 723 (67%) adult care homes. Staff absent due to COVID-19 represents 2.5% of all adult care home staff (38,011) for whom a return was provided.
• we have been notified by Health Boards or the Care Inspectorate of 19 deaths of healthcare workers and 26 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

From Monday 22 February all children in P1-P3 were to return to school. Some Senior Phase (S4-S6) pupils were also due to return to school on a part-time basis to attend practical lessons.

Across all sectors and local authorities, it is estimated that 31.1% of pupils were physically in school on Wednesday 3 March.

By school sector, 47.5% of pupils in primary schools, 9.0% of pupils in secondary schools and 48.5% of pupils in special schools were physically attending local authority schools on Wednesday 3 March.

In the 7 days up to and including Thursday 25 February:

• 50 university students have been reported by universities as testing positive for COVID-19. We are aware of a total of 4,600 since the start of the academic year.
• 10 college students have been reported by colleges as testing positive for COVID-19. We are aware of a total of 780 since the start of the academic year.
• 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

• 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.

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 (estimates first published on 24 November)
• the average number of new infections per week over the course of the study

As the sample size is increased in subsequent weeks, further analysis will become available.