One in 11 people in Scotland had Covid-19 by December last year, according to ONS stats which show there have been more than 106,000 deaths in the UK involving the virus.
An estimated one in eight people in England, one in 10 in Wales, and one in 13 in Northern Ireland had tested positive for coronavirus according to the latest figures.
The numbers come from the Office for National Statistic’s Covid-19 Infection Survey in partnership with the University of Oxford, University of Manchester, Public Health England and Wellcome Trust.
Testing positive for antibodies means someone has had the virus in the past.
Over time antibody levels in the blood decline to the point where they do not get picked up by a test, so the true proportion of people who have had the virus will be higher than the antibody figures suggest.
More than 106,000 deaths involving Covid-19 have now occurred in the UK, the figures show.
A total of 99,813 deaths have so far been registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, according to the latest reports from the UK’s statistics agencies.
Since these statistics were compiled, a further 6,447 deaths have occurred in England, plus 146 in Scotland, 260 in Wales and 181 in Northern Ireland, according to additional data published on the Government’s coronavirus dashboard.
Together, these totals mean that so far 106,847 deaths involving Covid-19 have taken place in the UK.
The figures came as Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary, announced that he is having to self-isolate because he has received an alert from the Covid app saying he has been close to someone who tested positive.
Hancock contracted the virus early last year and found himself self-isolating at the time the Prime Minister Boris Johnson ended up in hospital with breathing difficulties due to the infection.
