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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Stuart Gillespie

Dumfries and Galloway coronavirus update for Tuesday, March 23

Dumfries and Galloway has seen its biggest daily increase in coronavirus cases for more than a month.

But the number of people in hospital has fallen to its lowest level this year.

On the first anniversary of the country going into lockdown, a further 10 people have tested positive the largest daily increase since February 20.

It takes the total since the pandemic began to 4,116.

There are less than five people in hospital - the first time that has been the case since December 17.

The latest figures from Public Health Scotland show there have been 14 positive cases in the past seven days. That gives the region a seven day positivity rate of 9.4 per 100,000 people, with a positivity rate of 0.5 per cent.

The Scottish figures are 70.2 and 3.1 per cent respectively.

Across Scotland, there were 495 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 214,383.

There are 341 people in hospital with 28 in intensive care.

Sadly, a further seven people have died, taking the overall total to7,559

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