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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Stuart Gillespie

Dumfries and Galloway coronavirus update for Monday, March 22

There has been one confirmed coronavirus cases in the Dumfries and Galloway in the past 24 hours.

Combined with two new cases on Saturday and five on Sunday, it means there have been eight cases in the past few days.

It takes the overall total for the pandemic to 4,106.

There are currently six people in hospital with less than five in intensive care.

Across Scotland, there were 359 new cases, taking the total to 213,888.

There are 353 people in hospital with 33 in intensive care.

The latest Public Health Scotland figures show the seven day test positivity rate for Dumfries and Galloway is 0.5 per cent with the positive rate per 100,000 people at 8.1.

The Scottish figures are 3.1 and 70.4 respectively.

As of this morning, 33 people in the region had received their first dose of the vaccine - more than 60 per cent of the population - and 9,965 their second.

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