The latest statistics from Public Health Scotland show that Covid-19 is still within our communities, however, nationally there may be a slight decrease.

The number of acute COVID-19 admissions to hospital for the week ending 11th of August was 191, a slight decrease from the previous week of 250.

The figures for each local health board are as follows:

NHS Ayrshire and Arran	20	14	9
NHS Borders	5	6	2
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	14	6	8
NHS Fife	4	14	10
NHS Forth Valley	22	13	12
NHS Grampian	25	27	18
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	75	63	53
NHS Highland	15	12	11
NHS Lanarkshire	23	26	21
NHS Lothian	58	37	29
NHS Orkney	1	1	2
NHS Shetland	0	2	2
NHS Tayside	22	26	14
NHS Western Isles	1	0	0
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	0	3	0
Scotland	285	250	191

Hospital Occupancy has also decreased for the same period 251 down from 313 the previous week.

The local health board figures are as follows:

NHS Ayrshire and Arran	30	20	9
NHS Borders	14	12	6
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	4	2	2
NHS Fife	19	18	15
NHS Forth Valley	32	18	13
NHS Grampian	28	24	26
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	104	81	67
NHS Highland	25	11	15
NHS Lanarkshire	39	39	25
NHS Lothian	74	56	44
NHS Orkney	3	1	1
NHS Shetland	2	2	1
NHS Tayside	37	28	22
NHS Western Isles	2	0	1
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	0	1	1
Scotland	414	313	251

Waste water sampling for fragments of coronavirus’ ribonucleic acid (RNA) in local waste water samples covered by the Kirkwall area are as follows:

The latest published data was on 23rd July.

National Records of Scotland published the number of deaths where covid was mentioned on the death certificate for the week ending 11th August was 21.

From 1st July to 29th July there were 210 deaths where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate.

Over that period there was 1 Covid related death in Orkney.

18 of the Covid related deaths took place in Care Homes; 14 were at Home/Non Institutional Setting; and 178 were in Hospital.

Of the 210 Covid related deaths, Covid was the main cause in 148 of them.

Fiona Grahame