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Craig Paton

Covid Scotland: Deaths linked to virus rise by 51 in past week

The number of deaths in Scotland where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate has risen by 51 in the last week, according to new figures.

The weekly National Records of Scotland (NRS) data shows 10,421 people have now died since the start of the pandemic from confirmed or suspected coronavirus.

Of the deaths recorded in the latest figures, which cover the period from August 2 to August 8, 15 were people aged under 65, including five who were between 15 and 44.

Thirteen people aged 65-74 also died during that week, along with 23 people over 75.

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The vast majority of deaths (43) occurred in hospital, with three in care homes and five either at home or in another non-institutional setting.

Glasgow recorded the most deaths with eight, while seven occurred in North Lanarkshire and six in Dundee.

The NRS figures differ from the lab-confirmed coronavirus deaths announced daily by the Scottish Government using Health Protection Scotland data because the former includes suspected or probable cases of Covid-19.

In those daily figures, there were 10 coronavirus-linked deaths and 1,498 new cases in the past 24 hours.

This now takes the death toll under the daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - to 8,013.

A total of 356 people were in hospital on Tuesday with recently confirmed Covid-19, up four in 24 hours, with 42 patients in intensive care, up two.

So far, 4,034,420 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 3,375,524 have received their second dose.

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