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Daily Record
National
Douglas Dickie

Just two neighbourhoods in Perth and Kinross with COVID cases as infection rate drops to eight-month low

Just two neighbourhoods in Perth and Kinross are now recording COVID cases after the infection rate dropped to its lowest level in almost eight months.

According to Public Health Scotland, the seven-day infection rate on May 2 was 13.2 per 100,000 - the lowest since September 19 last year.

It is also a massive drop from the week before when the rate was 31.6 per 100,000.

Every neighbourhood outside of Perth has an infection rate so low it is not registered to protect patient confidentiality.

Viewlands, Craigie and Wellshill has a weekly infection rate of 103.9 per 100,000 while Hillyland, Tulloch and Inveralmond has a rate of 67.6 per 100,000.

Twenty positive cases were recorded in the week from April 26 to May 2, a drop from 48 the week before.

Only 0.6 per cent of tests returned a positive result.

It comes as National Records of Scotland confirmed no COVID deaths had been recorded in the region for the fifth time in six weeks.

After two deaths in the week starting April 19, last week saw the coronavirus not recorded on a single death certificate.

The total number of people who have died in Perth and Kinross from coronavirus is 252.

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