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Colin Paterson

Today's Public Health Scotland Covid figures as 1,604 new cases recorded

Another 1,604 Covid cases have been announced as Scotland's death toll from the virus rose again.

Data has been published by the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland this afternoon as part of the national Covid-19 daily briefing.

Nationally, there are 529 patients being treated in hospital which is down seven from yesterday. There are currently 47 people with the disease being treated in ICU.

The number of newly-reported positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has increased by 76 to 23,249.

Of the new cases, 33 were from East Ayrshire and 26 were attributed to South Ayrshire. There were 17 new cases in North Ayrshire.

A total of 332,455 positive tests have now been recorded from 2.399 million tests carried out since the start of the pandemic.

According to Public Health Scotland's rolling seven-day infection rate per 100,000 population, Midlothian has the highest infection rate in the country – at 447.8 as of Monday, July 19.

The second-highest is Dundee City which has a rate of 357.6 while City of Edinburgh (339.7) has the third-highest rate.

Locally, South Ayrshire's infection rate stands at 187.4 with East Ayrshire at 173.8. North Ayrshire's is 147.7.

Currently, 20 of Scotland's 32 council regions have an infection rate below the national average of 262.8.

7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...

44.9 Orkney Islands

86.1 Na h-Eileanan Siar

133.9 Argyll & Bute

147.7 North Ayrshire

153.2 Dumfries & Galloway

171.1 Aberdeenshire

172.2 Moray

173.8 East Ayrshire

183.6 Stirling

187.4 South Ayrshire

192.1 Highland

209.4 Shetland Islands

209.5 Clackmannanshire

210.4 Scottish Borders

234.9 Falkirk

236.6 Aberdeen City

237.5 East Dunbartonshire

240.5 South Lanarkshire

248.5 West Dunbartonshire

261.3 Perth & Kinross

268.2 West Lothian

282.8 Inverclyde

285.6 Fife

291.0 East Renfrewshire

300.1 Glasgow City

306.4 Angus

311.4 North Lanarkshire

312.1 Renfrewshire

331.5 East Lothian

339.7 City of Edinburgh

357.6 Dundee City

447.8 Midlothian

A further 13 deaths have been confirmed in the last 24 hours which means 7,813 people have passed away since March 2020.

However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 10,220 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, July 11 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.

Across the UK, the figure is 128,727 as of last night.

There are 19 patients being treated for the disease in Ayrshire hospitals, down three on yesterday, and fewer than five in ICUs.

Nationally, a total of 3,984,433 people have received the first dose of a Covid vaccine and 2,995,086 have received their second dose.

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