Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland - 12 January 2022

12th January 2022

7,606 new cases of COVID-19 reported*.

46,737 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
19.1% of these were positive.

21 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive.

59 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19.

1,537 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19.

on 12 January, 21 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive.

in the week ending 9 January, 72 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate (Noting that death registrations for this period are affected by public holidays).

Since the start of the outbreak:

9,971 people have died who have tested positive as at 12 January.

12,543 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 9 January.

29% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 64% were in hospitals and 7% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 9 January).

4,394,756 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,054,752 have received their second dose, and 3,145,537 have received a third dose or booster.

* Whilst improving, there continues to be large volumes of tests being processed by labs; this has impacted turnaround times resulting in delays between specimen's beings taken and results being received and reported. PHS are continuing to monitor the situation.

On 5 January 2022, the Scottish Government announced that people who do not have symptoms will no longer be asked to take a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test to confirm a positive Lateral Flow Device (LFD) result. Instead, anyone with a positive LFD, who does not have symptoms, should report the result online as soon as the test is done. In order to ensure that we continue to provide the most accurate information, changes have been made to the national COVID-19 case definition to reflect this revised testing strategy. At present, we report on PCR tests only. From Thursday 13 January, we will begin reporting on the number of people with a COVID-19 infection confirmed by either a first LFD or PCR positive test.

1,537 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 59 were in intensive care.

in addition, yesterday 11 confirmed COVID-19 patients were in intensive care longer than 28 days.

in the week ending 8 January, 967 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to hospital.

in the week ending 11 January, 43 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to intensive care.

28,413 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020.

as at 5 January, 1,523 people were delayed in hospital.