CITY’S COVID-19 RATE HITS LOW Latest Covid-19 figures revealed
Significant fall in figures despite rise last week takes city to low for 2021
GLASGOW has seen a considerable drop in coronavirus cases in the past week. The latest seven-day figures show the number of positive Covid-19 cases in Glasgow has fallen after a recent increase.
The latest seven-day total for positive cases was 684, which is a reduction from the 844 recorded for the week before.
It is a drop of 19% in a week. Meanwhile, there was a drop across Scotland – though not as steep as in Glasgow. Across the country overall the fall was 4%, down by 156 from 4014 to 3848.
It takes the rate per 100,000 people in the city to 108, the lowest it has been this year.
Glasgow is now one of five areas where the rate of Covid-19 is between 100 and 200 per 100,000.
West Lothian has the highest rate in Scotland at 193 per 100,00,0 followed by East Renfrewshire at 112 and North Lanarkshire at 108 per 100,000 people. North Ayrshire is the other area at 100.7.
A total of 15 of Scotland’s council areas are at a lower rate of below 50 per 100,000 and 12 have a rate of between 50 and 99.
Using the World Health Organisation criteria for levels, Glasgow would qualify for Level Three, with between 50 and 150 per 100,000, when the system is brought back at the end of April.
However, a continued reduction could see it reach below 50, taking the city to Level Two.
Scotland overall is currently at70 cases per 100,00, with that figure reducing, giving hope that the whole country can move out of lockdown together as planned.
The 19% drop in the city comes after a one-week increase for the seven days up to March 12.
In Glasgow there is just one area remaining in the highest category of more than 400 cases per 100,000 people.
Blackhill and Barmulloch East, the only area shown on the map as the darkest purple, had the highest rate with 23 cases and a rate of 499 per 100,000.
It was an increase from 12 over the previous seven days.
The number of areas with the higher rates is reducing in the city.
There were 14 areas with a rate of between 200 and 399, shown as the lighter purple on the map.
These included, at the higher end, Knightswood West with 10 cases and a rate of 392 per 100,000, Old Shettleston and Parkhead North with 18 cases a rate of 371 per 100,000 and Parkhead West and Barrowfield with 27 new cases, a rate of 361 per 100,000 – the only other three above 300 per 100,000.
At the lower end was Dalmarnock with eight cases and a rate of 207 per 100,000, Ibrox East and Cessnock with seven cases and a rate of 210 and Garrowhill East and Swinton with nine cases, a rate of 215 per 100,000.
There were another 43 areas, shown as dark grey on the map, with a rate of between 100 and 199 cases per 100,000.
They included Craigton with seven new cases, a rate of 199 per 100,000, Greenfield with 10 cases, a rate of 194, and Scotstoun South and West with seven new cases, a rate of 192.
At the lower end was Anniesland West with seven new cases, a rate of 104, Shettleston North with five cases, a rate of 104, Shettleston North with four cases, a rate of 105, and City Centre West with six cases, a rate of 105 per 100,000
There were another 31 areas with a rate of 50 to 99 per 100,000, shown as the lighter grey on the map.
These include Cowlairs at four cases, which is 99 per 100,000, and Cardonald West with five, which is 97 per 100,000.
At the lower end of that category was City Centre East with six new cases, a rate of 57 per 100,000, and Mosspark and Darnley East, both with three cases and a rate of 58 per 100,000.
There were 45 areas shown as white on the map with between zero and two cases – with the virus considered suppressed in those areas at the time.
It is an increase from 41 areas in the previous week.
These areas include Sighthill, which has been considered suppressed in eight out of the past nine weeks and in 19 of the last 22 weeks going back as far as October 2020.
North Kelvin has been in the lowest category for eight out the past nine weeks, Dowanhill where it has been between 0 and 2 for seven of he last eight weeks and Partick with the lowest rate for six of the last seven weeks.
Others in the lowest category include Carnwadric East, Central Easterhouse, Kelvingrove and University and Knightswood Park East, where it has been suppressed for the past four weeks in a row.
Broomhill has been between zero and two cases for three of the past four weeks.
MORE than 350 new coronavirus cases were reported in the latest 24-hour period.
Daily figures from the Scottish Government show that there have been 359 new positive Covid-19 cases.
However, there were no new deaths reported over the weekend.
There were 353 people in hospital on Sunday with recently confirmed Covid-19, up from 344 the previous day.
There were also 33 people in intensive care with coronavirus, up two from Sunday. Figures showed that 24 confirmed Covid-19 patients have now been in intensive care for longer than 28 days.
The daily test positivity rate is 3.7% – up from 2.9% on Sunday.
Statistics show that 2,182,400 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination. This is an increase of 37,460 – up 9.7% on the previous day’s figures.
225,096 have received their second dose, down 45% on the previous day’s figures.
This is a daily total decrease of 708 vaccines on Saturday’s figures.
Although no new deaths were reported, the Scottish Government noted that registry offices are now generally closed at weekends.