Coronavirus (covid-19): Daily Data For Scotland - 8 January 2022

8th January 2022

12,602 new cases of COVID-19 reported*.

57,907 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
25.1% of these were positive.

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

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

1,362 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19.

4,390,076 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,041,550 have received their second dose, and 3,082,231 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 7 January, 15 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive.

in the week ending 2 January, 44 deaths were registered where COVID-19 was on the death certificate (noting that death registrations for this period are affected by public holidays and are likely to be artificially low).

Since the start of the outbreak:

9,905 people have died who have tested positive as at 7 January.

12,470 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 2 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 2 January).

1,323 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19; of these, 48 were in intensive care.

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

in the week ending 3 January, 941 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to hospital.

in the week ending 6 January, 56 patients with confirmed COVID-19 were admitted to intensive care.

27,850 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.

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