Concerning Rise in #Covid Cases

The rise in Covid cases continues in Orkney . Analysis of the waste water which serves the Kirkwall area for RNA and published on the SEPA website, has increasing levels of fragments of coronavirus’ ribonucleic acid. Deaths where Covid is mentioned on the registration certificate have also been increasing. (National Records of Scotland) Week ending…

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The rise in Covid cases continues in Orkney . Analysis of the waste water which serves the Kirkwall area for RNA and published on the SEPA website, has increasing levels of fragments of coronavirus’ ribonucleic acid.

Deaths where Covid is mentioned on the registration certificate have also been increasing. (National Records of Scotland)

Week ending Deaths where Covid is mentionedDeaths where Covid was the main cause
3 June 241911
10 June 241410
17 June 24137
24 June 243224
1 July 244937
Total12789

In the week ending 24 June 24 there was one death in Orkney where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate. Of the 49 Covid related deaths in Scotland in the week ending 1st July, 44 were in Hospital, 3 in a Care Home, and 2 at Home/Non Institutional Setting.

The Number of acute COVID-19 admissions to hospital for the week ending 7th Jul 24 was 459.

Health Board of Treatment23 June 2430 June 247 July 24
NHS Ayrshire and Arran243039
NHS Borders9106
NHS Dumfries and Galloway171125
NHS Fife151612
NHS Forth Valley342531
NHS Grampian131925
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde110163140
NHS Highland181613
NHS Lanarkshire555144
NHS Lothian766371
NHS Orkney222
NHS Shetland133
NHS Tayside414739
NHS Western Isles658
Golden Jubilee National Hospital111
Scotland422462459

This means that there are a lot of people in hospital with Covid. For the week ending 7th July 24 the number of inpatients with COVID-19 in hospital (seven day average) was 591.

Health Board of Treatment23 June 2430 June 247 July 24
NHS Ayrshire and Arran343542
NHS Borders687
NHS Dumfries and Galloway344
NHS Fife211719
NHS Forth Valley324045
NHS Grampian262236
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde139192194
NHS Highland222533
NHS Lanarkshire476865
NHS Lothian1069496
NHS Orkney122
NHS Shetland000
NHS Tayside415031
NHS Western Isles8616
Golden Jubilee National Hospital222
Scotland487564591

In recognition of the high rates currently being experienced of Covid, Public Health Scotland’s interactive dashboard will be updated on 18 July 2024, 25 July, 1 August and 8 August. 

Deaths involving Covid are increasing in England: 168 in the week ending 28 June 24 – an increase of 17.5% ; 143 week ending 21 June 24; 147 week ending 14 June 24; and 141 week ending 7th June 24.

In England for the week ending 28th June 24, 2,797 people were admitted to hospital with Covid – an increase of 2.2%.

Click on this link for the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance from NHS Scotland and the Scottish Government, including what to do if you have symptoms and treatments available to some groups.

Fiona Grahame

4 responses to “Concerning Rise in #Covid Cases”

  1. berniebell1955 Avatar
    berniebell1955

    Thank you for this – I get the impression that some folk think we’re foolish for still being careful – better safe than sorry.

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  2. S Davidson Avatar
    S Davidson

    Yes, it has gotten to a point where everybody who is still cautious (wears masks for example) almost has to defend their decisions.
    And yes, it is better to be safe than sorry…
    Many have not grasped yet that this is an avoidable disease, there is no need to let this virus roam completely free through societies and just shrug the shoulders at the deaths, long term consequences etc. that are treated as collateral damage of a no-risk-no-fun society that simply does not care.
    One can withdraw from society to some extent… and just do your own thing. Quite happily even, at least from my perspective. The thing is, you cannot do this completely. You might have to go to the dentist (if you get an appointment that is), or visit other health services. You’ll be very lucky, if anybody there is masked.

    Other than that… wasn’t there much talk of learning from the pandemic? I don’t see much learning there. In most buildings ventilation is the same it was in 2020. The public still has no clue whatsoever that masks only work when you use them correctly. And that there are certainly areas (particularly hospitals) where masks should have stayed for good.
    In the absence of learning… what if….. a much worse disease comes around (there are several candidates one could think of), a disease that does not (conveniently?!) wipe out predominantly the elderly, the disabled, the ones with “underlying health conditions”? At the moment one could get the impression that their demise is seen as a tool to counteract demographic changes, hence nobody bothers. The value of people with underlying health conditions seems to be marginal.
    (What this says about our society, is obvious… and I find it sickening.)

    Already, there is confusion which variants should be targeted for next vaccine rounds. There are simply too many, not all coming from the same strains.
    Covid has surprised us before… we cannot rule out that it will be doing this again. At the beginning many said not to worry because corona viruses only slowly mutate. Normally, this may be… but this one was “turbocharged”.
    There are some scientists that say that there is a potential of Sars-Cov2 merging with MERS. If this is a possibility, this is concerning.
    Also concerning: the more virus variant “soup” there is around in humans, uncontrolled, unchecked… it could find its way back into animals, mutate there quietly and undetected and come back to us in a changed form.

    Has everybody forgotten the chaos, horror and death in hospitals all over the world? The graveyards overflowing in some regions? Would we want to risk something like this again? Is our trust in the finances of our government to fund then again urgently needed research into new vaccines justified?

    This virus may now not kill the same amount of people it did at the very beginning. But with vaccinations scaled back (and numerous doses wasted, the Scottish figures have only recently been published), immunity is waning. And speaking of immunity isn’t even correct. Because you were not immune against the infection and “just” in most cases protected against ending up in hospital or a coffin.

    What if… the next one is a really nasty one, so nasty that the case fatality rate is eyewatering? Will we come to regret that we have never educated the public properly how to prevent infections? Because again, the very same disruptions to the economy, to delivery chains and so forth would then happen.

    Rant over.

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  3. berniebell1955 Avatar
    berniebell1955

    Not a rant – a reasoned argument.

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  4. berniebell1955 Avatar
    berniebell1955

    Well, well, well…. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/18/hancock-and-hunt-failed-to-prepare-uk-for-pandemic-covid-inquiry-finds

    Reply

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