Coronavirus (covid-19): Daily Data For Scotland - 5 January 2022

5th January 2022

16,103 new cases of COVID-19 reported*.

69,327 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
26.9% of these were positive.

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

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

1,223 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19.

4,385,227 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,026,878 have received their second dose, and 3,016,198 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.

** Public Health Scotland have been notified that the vaccination data is incomplete due to a technical processing issue since 4 Jan 2022 15:00. The issue is currently being investigated.

on 5 January, 5 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:

9,872 people have died who have tested positive as at 5 January.

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).

1,223 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 42 were in intensive care.

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

in the week ending 28 December, 601 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to hospital.

in the week ending 4 January, 44 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to intensive care.

27,551 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.

Note
For lots of graphs and data look at Travelling Tabby web site

UK Total Deaths - 148,941
USA Total Deaths - 851,475
Brazil total Deaths - 619,426
India Total Deaths - 482,551
Russia Total Deaths - 313,015
World Total Deaths - 5,476,851 - - 4 December 2021 - 5,261,745