Coronavirus in Scotland: John Swinney confirms 31 new deaths from Covid-19 in last 24 hours

Scotland has recorded 31 deaths from coronavirus and 885 positive tests in the past 24 hours, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told today’s Covid briefing.

John Swinney gave the latest vaccination figures at the daily Covid briefing

It brings the death toll under this measure – people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – to 6,916

Mr Swinney said 195,839 people have tested positive in Scotland, up from 194,954 the previous day.

The daily test positivity rate is 4.4 per cent, up from 4.4 per cent.

Mr Swinney said the Office for National Statistics estimated that last week one in 180 people in Scotland had Covid, the lowest estimated level of infection of any UK nation.

There are 1,222 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus, down 39 in 24 hours, and 98 patients are in intensive care, up three.

He said by 8.30am on Thursday a total of 1,386,152 Scots had received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine – an increase of 31,186 from the previous day.

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