A weekly update on Covid-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths in Scotland.
The number of Covid-19 infections in Scotland fell last week, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics .people infected on any given day in the week up to 16 August - that's aboutThe number of hospital patients testing positive for Covid also declined over the past week but deaths increased on last week.This page analyses the key figures for the Covid pandemic in Scotland. It is updated weekly on Fridays.
During the Omicron surge in cases in early 2022, the total number of patients with Covid surpassed the 2021 peak. However, the numbers being treated in intensive care are lower than they were early in the pandemic. The rate of new deaths rose again in the autumn of 2020 as the second wave of the pandemic took hold, finally peaking at the end of January 2021.
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