Scotland Coronavirus case numbers show dip from record high

Vaccination rates fall to lowest since February

Author: Rob WallerPublished 28th Aug 2021

Scotland has reported 5,858 new cases of coronavirus, almost a thousand fewer than Friday's record high.

But there have been eight more deaths of people who had recently tested positive for Covid-19, double the previous day's figure.

Scottish Government figures for Saturday show that 14.2% of 43,450 tests came back positive.

Hosptial admissions increase

As of Friday there were 494 people in hospital with recently confirmed coronavirus, an increase of 15 from the previous day.

The number of patients in intensive care is up by two to 49.

Vaccination figures decline again

A further 13,998 vaccinations were carried out in the past 24 hours - the lowest figure since February.

Of those, 2,615 were first doses and 11,383 were second doses, taking the total figures to 4,098,078 and 3,640,865 respectively.

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