Statement from Public Health Scotland: Daily data on new cases, tests, ICU admissions and vaccinations will not be refreshed today due to a technical issue affecting the availability of the data. Tomorrow’s update will include figures for today. Scottish Government Coronavirus
A technical issue has meant that the stats we would normally bring in from Public Health Scotland are not available. This is extremely unfortunate given the rising cases we have had in Orkney over the past few weeks. These are the latest stats we have for you.
We will publish what we can find available. For the period 6th – 12th September for Orkney the cases are as follows:
- West Mainland: 20
- Stromness, Stenness, Sandwick: 13
- East Mainland: 10
- North Isles, Linked South Isles, Hoy, Flotta: 7
Vaccinations in Orkney
The stats for Scotland are available for 16th September and they are as follows:
- 4,917 new cases of COVID-19 reported
- 57,383 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
- 26 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
- 94 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
- 1,054 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-1
To keep yourself and others safe please remember to:
- get the vaccine when you are offered it
- wear a face covering where required
- wash your hands regularly, and cover your nose and mouth if coughing or sneezing
- self isolate and take a PCR test if you have symptoms
- take regular tests if you don’t have symptoms to reduce the risk of spreading the virus
- meet outside if you can, and open windows when indoors
- keep your distance from people not in your group
- work from home, or do a mixture of home and office working if possible
- use the Protect Scotland and Check-in Scotland apps
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