Coronavirus (covid-19): Daily Data For Scotland - 31 October 2021 - Video - Inconsistencies in official numbers

31st October 2021

2,513 new cases of COVID-19 reported*.

27,809 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
9.6% of these were positive*.

0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends).

64 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19'

910 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19'

4,317,601 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,907,056 have received their second dose

*The backlog of results being processed at the Glasgow Lighthouse laboratory, which impacted on newly reported cases and tests over the last couple of days, has now been cleared.

on 29 October, 24 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive.

in the week ending 24 October, 130 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate.

Since the start of the outbreak:

9,143 people have died who have tested positive as at 29 October.

11,538 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 24 October
30% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 63% were in hospitals and 7% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 24 October)

926 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 60 were in intensive care
in addition, yesterday 21 confirmed COVID-19 patients were in intensive care longer than 28 days
in the week ending 25 October, 665 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to hospital
in the week ending 28 October, 55 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to intensive care
23,242 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020
as at 27 October, 1,539 people were delayed in hospital

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