Dundee Covid deaths among 19 in one day across Scotland

Scotland recorded 19 Covid-related deaths yesterday, with five in Tayside and Fife. It is the highest number of coronavirus deaths since March 10, when Scotland was in lockdown.

This brings the toll of people in Scotland who tested positive for the virus within 28 days of death to 7,791.

Two of yesterday’s deaths were in Perth and Kinross, while another two were in Dundee and one was in Fife.

Overall, Scotland recorded 2,806 new Covid19 cases yesterday.

On Monday, the country recorded 2,134 new cases, while on Tuesday it recorded 2,636, showing the number of new daily cases has been increasing through the week.

The latest Scottish Government figures indicate that the daily test positivity rate is 6.6%.

On Wednesday, 542 people were being treated in hospital for Covid across Scotland, up 28 since Tuesday.

Of those patients, 47 were being treated in intensive care.

Almost four million people in Scotland so far have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while almost three million have received their second.

At the beginning of this week Dundee lost its title as the most infected local authority in the UK, following a steady decline.

But the city still remains the second-highest for case positivity rates in Scotland, with 494.9 cases per 100,000 in the last seven days, as of yesterday.

The case positivity rate in Perth and Kinross yesterday was 294.2, while in Angus it was 139.7.

Dundee recorded 84 new Covid cases yesterday, while in Perth and Kinross the figure was 48 and in Angus it was 56.

Across Tayside there were 61 people being treated in hospital for coronavirus with fewer than five of these being treated in an intensive care unit.

Fife recorded one Covidrelated death yesterday as 35 people were being treated in hospital for the virus.

Fife’s case positivity rate sat at 322.8 cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days, with 161 new daily cases recorded yesterday.

The number of people with Covid continues to increase.