Data from Public Health Scotland’s Daily Dashboard show that as of the 28th December (the latest update available), the infection rate per 100,000 population in all St Andrews neighbourhoods remained at 0-2 per 100,000 population for the 3rd week in a row and the virus officially designated ‘supressed’ – as was the case in the coastal wards of the East Neuk. Leuchars and Guardbridge had a 7 day infection rates of 50-99 per 100,000 (no change).
The overall rate of infection per 100,000 for Fife is 119.4 , marginally up from 115.6 the previous week.
Over the 7 days up to the 30th December, 465 further cases were diagnosed in Fife (see graph below) compared with 433 the week before. In Tayside, the 7 day figure was 605 (no change compared with the previous week).
On the 30th December, there were 56 cases in hospital in Fife (up 14 over 7 days) and less than 5 cases in intensive care (no change); 52 cases in hospital in Tayside (down 15 over 7 days) and less than 5 cases in intensive care (no change).
During the week ending 30th December, 6 deaths of patients with coronavirus were recorded in Fife (down from 16 the previous week) and 7 (down from 12) in Tayside . Amongst confirmed cases in Scotland, there were 97 deaths over the 7days to the 28th December, compared to 213 in the previous week.
The latest update by St Andrews University on the 17th December reported that 1 student and 1 member of staff had been diagnosed since the previous update on the 10th December, bringing the total since 1st September to 121. There was 1 active case, a student.
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For the latest global coronavirus data go to: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
Click here for an account of why the UK was unprepared for a pandemic and was critically short of ventilators and here for an account of how the UK got its testing strategy wrong and here for an account of how advice to purchase protective equipment for health workers was rejected on account of the cost. And here for potential problems with Scotland’s test, trace and isolate programme.
Picture: Electron microscope view of SARS-Cov-2 (Covid-19)
