Coronavirus (covid-19): Daily Data For Scotland - 4 January 2022

4th January 2022

17,259 new cases of COVID-19 reported*.

56,290 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
35.3% of these were positive.

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

1,147 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19.

4,384,343 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,022,821 have received their second dose, and 3,006,133 have received a third dose or booster.

* There continues to be large volumes of tests being processed by labs. This and the holiday weekend have impacted turnaround times resulting in delays between specimens being taken and results being received and reported. Public Health Scotland are continuing to monitor the situation.

On 31 December, 13 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:

9,858 people have died who have tested positive as at 31 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)

859 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 36 were in intensive care.

in addition, yesterday 15 confirmed COVID-19 patients were in intensive care longer than 28 days.

in the week ending 27 December, 554 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to hospital

in the week ending 30 December, 38 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to intensive care.

27,093 inpatients who tested positive for COVID-19 have been discharged from hospital since 5 March 2020.

as at 29 December, 1,428 people were delayed in hospital

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