Coronavirus (covid-19): Daily Data For Scotland - 23 December 2021

23rd December 2021

6,215 new cases of COVID-19 reported*.

54,863 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
12.7% of these were positive.

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

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

540 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19.

4,377,002 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,003,377 have received their second dose, and 2,782,462 have received a third dose or booster.

* On 22 December, Public Health Scotland (PHS) experienced a technical issue that meant that the new reported positive case number was lower than expected (2,434). This has been resolved and the new cases figure for 22 December should have been 5,967. This has been corrected in our trends file and these cases are included in today's cumulative figures.

PHS also note there continues to be an impact on turnaround times between specimens being taken and results reported, due to larger volumes of tests being processed by labs.

On 23 December, 11 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive.

In the week ending 19 December, 68 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate.

Since the start of the outbreak:

9,812 people have died who have tested positive as at 23 December.

12,372 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 19 December.

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 19 December).

540 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 38 were in intensive care.

In addition, yesterday 13 confirmed COVID-19 patients were in intensive care longer than 28 days.

In the week ending 19 December, 392 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to hospital.

In the week ending 22 December, 35 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to intensive care.

26,508 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020.

As at 22 December, 1,465 people were delayed in hospital.

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Total World Deaths - 5,396,771
Total UK Deaths - 147,573