Public health teams are dealing with a number of large outbreaks among students
Hard hit students establishments in the West of Scotland and Jason Leitch.
By Democrat reporter
More than 700 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Scotland in the last 24 hours.
Scotland’s National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said the pandemic was now “accelerating” in Scotland.
BBC Scotland has reported that the daily total of 714 is the highest number of cases confirmed in a day since mass testing began, and 156 more than Friday’s figure.
The Scottish government said 11.5% of those newly tested in the past 24 hours had been positive for Covid-19.
The number of people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19 has also risen by 10 to 99.
There were no further deaths reported in the past 24 hours, but one death was confirmed from the previous day, bringing the total to 2,511.
- Covid-19 in Scotland: Where are the latest cases?
- Extra police patrols as bar curfew begins
- New Covid-19 cases confirmed in Western isles
Professor Leitch said the trend in Scotland would now be for rises of “300 to 400 to 600” in the number of cases, rather than smaller increases.
“Our pandemic in Scotland is presently accelerating – and we need to manage it,” he told the BBC.
Almost 3,500 new cases have been confirmed in Scotland over the past seven days.
The current focus of Scotland’s outbreak appears to be in Glasgow, which recorded a weekly case rate of 162.5 per 100,000 people on Thursday.
The rate is more than twice that of North Lanarkshire, which has the second highest rate among local authorities. It is also the highest seen in Scotland since the start of the outbreak in March.
The number of tests being carried out is far higher than at the peak of Scotland’s outbreak in April – meaning more positive cases will be detected – but the percentage of positive tests is also rising.
“It’s two, three weeks before you show any difference,” he said.
“And we’ve now had universities and colleges back and you can see we now have hundreds of cases inside those institutions.”
Public health teams in Scotland are currently dealing with a number of large outbreaks among students living in shared accommodation.
More than 170 students have tested positive in halls of residence at the University of Glasgow and there have been other outbreaks in Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, NHS Fife has confirmed seven workers from Kettle Produce in Balmalcolm in Fife, have tested positive for Covid-19.
It said all confirmed cases had mild symptoms and were currently isolating at home.
Ah well, the push was on not so long ago to get the pubs opened up.
The Tories argued for it, and in fact, Brian Wilson is now arguing for it to the extent that he complains of a publican colleague who says that closing the pubs at 10.00 pm will cause him to lose 25% of his income.
Now I don’t know what type of pubs Brian wilson drinks in, but if a pub in its 11.00am to 11.00 pm opening period takes in 25% of its income in the last hour between 10.00 pm and 11.00 pm ( with the other 75% being taken over eleven hours of opening ) it must be swill time in Brian’s pals pub that last hour.
And that, the crazy drinking, all about profit, is what caused the infection to reignite. Brian Wilson, absolutely at one with the Tories on that.
Ah well folks, do as Brian says. It’s all about profits, nothing to do about public s@fety.