Scottish Covid-19 case numbers keep falling

Covid-19 infections in Scotland have continued to fall, data suggests.

The Covid-19 infection survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated one in 55 people in Scotland in the week to November 8 had the virus.

The figure equates to about 97,500 people, or 1.85% of the population.

In the week before, one in 50 people in Scotland were believed to have the virus.

Scotland joined Wales and Northern Ireland, both of which the survey estimates had cases in one in 55 of their population, while the figure in England was one in 60.

The survey comes as Nicola Sturgeon this week urged eligible Scots to get vaccinated as she was jabbed.

“As we get deeper into winter, a virus like this is always going to have the potential to circulate and obviously we have concerns about flu circulating,” she told PA news on Monday.