Coronavirus in Lothian: 72 coronavirus cases recorded in the Lothians health board in the past 24 hours

A total of 72 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the NHS Lothian health board area as Scotland records 584 cases in the past 24 hours.

The mass vaccination centre at the EICC opened its doors on Monday (Photo: Jane Barlow).

Including the recent 72 cases, 762 positive cases of the virus have been recorded in NHS Lothian in the last seven days.

The total number of coronavirus cases in the health board stands at 25,067.

The latest 7 day rate is currently at 84 per 100,000 population in NHS Lothians with a total rate of 2,762 out of 100,000.

A total of 584 cases and have been reported across Scotland in the past 24 hours as well as 7 additional deaths, the latest coronavirus figures reveal.

Of the people tested for the virus – 9,479 – in the past day, 6.9% of these were positive

108 people are in intensive care and 1,710 people are in hospital with recently confirmed covid.

There are 7 new reported deaths of people who have tested positive, however, Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends.

A total of 6,438 people have died who have tested positive as at February 7.

8,347 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 31 January

37% of covid registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 56% were in hospitals and 6% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 31 January).

As at 8:30am today, 839,266 people have received the first dose of the vaccine and 10,582 received their second dose.

This includes 29,863 care home residents (99.5% of residents in older adult care homes and 93% of residents in all care homes), 40,295 care home staff (90% of staff in older adult care homes and 77% of staff in all care homes), 235,089 people aged 80 or over living in the community (94%) – this excludes care home residents who are reported separately.

As well as 273,086 frontline health and social care workers, exceeding the initial target of 230,000 staff provided by Health Boards.

121,447 people aged 75-79 living in the community (64%) and 72,734 people aged 70-74 living in the community (26%) excluding care home residents who are reported separately.

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