Coronavirus (covid-19): Daily Data For Scotland - 9 January 2022

9th January 2022

7,561 new cases of COVID-19 reported*.

38,423 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results*
23.2% of these were positive.

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

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

1,382 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19.

4,391,558 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination, 4,045,667 have received their second dose, and 3,101,096 have received a third dose or booster.

* There continues to be large volumes of tests being processed by labs; this has impacted turnaround times resulting in delays between specimen's beings taken and results being received and reported. PHS 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).

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