SEVEN Covid-19 deaths have been recorded in Scotland over the last week – as the number of suspected and confirmed fatalities has continued to level off.
Data published by the National Records of Scotland shows that between July 27 and August 2, seven deaths were registered where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate – including two at care homes. There have now been a total of 4,208 deaths where Covid-19 has been a contributing factor.
There has been a decrease of one death from the previous seven-day period where eight suspected or confirmed Covid-19 deaths were recorded, with six deaths recorded in the week before that.
The report indicates that “deaths involving Covid-19 accounted for less than one per cent of all deaths registered” between July 27 and August 2.
It adds that “this proportion has fallen steadily from its peak” in April, when “Covid-19 deaths accounted for 36 per cent of all deaths”.
In total since the start of the pandemic, the National Records of Scotland data indicates that 46 per cent of deaths registered related to care home, 46 per cent related to hospitals and seven per cent of the deaths have been at home or in non-institutional settings.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereLast Updated:
Report this comment Cancel