Fresh Covid case linked to primary
GLASGOW’S coronavirus tracing team is contacting down those who may have come in to contact with Lady Alice Primary pupils. The NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde ( NHSGGC) staff are working with education departments and Inverclyde Council environmental health teams to support the Greenock school and families affected.
No details have been made available about the Covid- 19 patient, however, NHSGGC insisted there was no evidence of transmission within the school.
Public health teams have identified a list of close contacts who will be advised to self- isolate by Test and Protect staff.
The building remains safe for all. It comes after two more confirmed coronavirus patients died in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
The deaths are the first to be newly registered of people who tested positive in the previous 28 days since July 16, the First Minister said, taking the toll to 2494.
Speaking at First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood, she said 67 people tested positive for Covid- 19 in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 19,988.
Ms Sturgeon said of those who tested positive, 249 were in hospital, up six in 24 hours.
Of these, two were in intensive care, a rise of one.
Separate figures from the National Records of Scotland showed that by Sunday, August 23 there had been 4222 deaths where coronavirus was either confirmed or suspected.
That includes six deaths over the period of the week to August 23, Ms Sturgeon said – three more than the previous week.
Four of those deaths were in care homes, she added.
The SNP leader has also been challenged to release correspondence between the Scottish Government, health boards and care homes in the discharge of hospital patients in the wake of the Covid- 19 pandemic.
Scottish Conservative Ruth Davidson made the plea yesterday, saying families needed answers.
The First Minister pledged to make “any relevant information available”.
Earlier this month, it emerged at least 37 potentially infectious people in Ayrshire hospitals who had tested positive were still sent to homes – with Health Secretary Jeane Freeman announcing afterwards that Public Health Scotland is to carry out the research.
Meanwhile, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie urged Ms Sturgeon to implement a policy of coronavirus testing for all international students coming to Scotland for university.
He asked the First Minister to commit to overseas university students being tested twice within a week of their arrival.