Record high number of daily COVID cases for Scotland
Scotland has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases since the start of the outbreak.
Last updated 28th Jun 2021
Scotland has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases in a single day since the start of the pandemic.
There have been 3,285 positive COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours.
The First Minister says the figure is “too high” and is concerned about the impact on the health service.
Not speculating
Nicola Sturgeon said, “Even if it is the case, as it appears to be right now, that a much smaller percentage of cases are ending up in hospital - even if that is only 3%, 4%, 5% compared to 10% earlier in the year - that is still a lot of people ending up in hospital.
“I’ve talked, as have others, about a race between the virus and vaccine. The vaccination programme is going as quickly as it can go, but while there is still quite a sizable pool of people that don’t yet have both doses, the danger is the virus will run ahead of the vaccination programme.
“I am not going to speculate about what might happen at future review points. What I am confident about at this stage is that the vaccination programme will keep us on track to get out of restrictions and back to greater normality. The question is, what is going to happen between now and then?”
Results delay
Today’s daily total beats the previous record of 2,999 new cases on Thursday, which topped the largest number of 2,969 recorded on the previous day and the high of 2,649 on January 7th.
No new deaths have been recorded, meaning the toll under this daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - remains at 7,712.
However, the daily test positivity rate is 12.6%, up from 8.9% the previous day, and is the highest figure since 14.8% was recorded on January 8.
A total of 202 people were in hospital on Sunday with recently confirmed Covid-19 with 20 patients in intensive care.
So far, 3,765,379 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 2,691,775 have received their second dose.
The Scottish Government said Public Health Scotland is aware of an “ongoing delay'' in results from the Glasgow Lighthouse laboratory.
The cause of the delay is being investigated but the facility is continuing to issue results as tests are processed.