RUSHES: Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon press conference 14th January 2021
Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon press conference 14th January 2021; SCOTLAND: Edinburgh: St Andrew's House:
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Nicola Sturgeon MSP (First Minister of Scotland) statement SOT part 1 of 3.
- Thank you for joining us. As usual I will start with the statistics for today and report that the total number of positive cases yesterday was 1,707.
That represents 8.3 per cent of the total number of tests and the total number of confirmed cases is now 157,079.
526 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 242 in Lanarkshire, 205 in Grampian, and 177 in Lothian. The remaining cases are across 8 other health board areas.
I can also confirm that as of yesterday 208,207 people had received their first dose of vaccine.
1,829 people unfortunately are currently in hospital – that is 35 more than yesterday and as you can see from that figure the hospital occupancy as a result of COVID is now significantly above the peak that it reached of around 1,500 patients in April during the first wave.
142 people are in intensive care, that’s an increase of 8 from yesterday and while that figure remains below the peak back in April - the number in intensive care at any one time from COVID peaked at around 200 so 142 is below that, but nevertheless that figure is rising and both of those figures for hospital admissions and also for people in intensive care demonstrate and illustrate the pressure currently being experienced by the NHS and of course remind us how important it is that we all play our part in ensuring, as far as we can, that that pressure on the NHS does not increase.
I am also very sorry to say that 64 additional deaths have been registered in the past 24 hours of patients who first tested positive over the past 28 days and the total number of deaths under this measurement is now 5,166.
And yet again we are reminded that these are not just statistics, but behind every one of them is a real human being. Someone who was loved and is currently being mo...
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