Five coronavirus hotspots have been revealed as Edinburgh remains Scotland’s Covid-19 capital.
Edinburgh has had the most amount of new infections on the Scottish Governments daily updates for over a week now and it shows now signs of changing.
The latest Public Health Scotland data reveals that Edinburgh remains the highest for new infections in Scotland with 870 new cases, and 5528 across the week.
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The capital city is now well above the national average, with 1047 positive results per 100,000 people, well above the national average of 795.
Edinburgh is also the fourth most infectious place in Scotland with only Shetland Islands, Dundee and Aberdeen higher.
Marchmont West is the most infectious place in the city, with a whopping 2235 new infections per 100,000 residents.
Bonalay and the Pentlandswith 2227, Newington and Dalkeith Road with 2067 and Marchmont East and Sciennes with 2012 were the other four hotspots.
The news comes as the Scottish Government were advised not to abandon coronavirus restrictions as Boris Johnson is considering.
Removing the coronavirus self-isolation rules now would be a “step too far” and would risk undoing progress in tackling the virus, a public health expert has said.
Jillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, urged a slow and cautious move out of the existing restrictions.
Ms Evans told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme that trends in the virus were still “fairly stable”.
She said: “Advice from the scientific community and the WHO is when you’re coming out of a peak or a spike, you do so slowly and you do so cautiously.
“I would argue at this point in time, certainly the potential of removal of self-isolation would be a step too far.”
