Wednesday’s Scottish Government Covid figures are incomplete for a second time this week due to technical issues.
There are 10,710 new cases of the virus across the country, however this data does not cover a full 24-hour period as it usually would. Data has not been received since 8pm on Tuesday, March 15.
A similar issue occurred on Monday, when the daily case rate was not reported at all.
The explanation of the issue on the government website says: “Please note that case figures reported today (Wednesday, March 16) cover less than a 24-hour period.
“This is due to a reoccurrence of the technical issue from earlier in the week, meaning data has not been received since 8pm yesterday (Tuesday, March 15).”
Hospital figures appear to be complete and show there are 1,999 people in hospital with Covid, 32 of whom are being treated in intensive care.
A further 31 people have died after testing positive.
No vaccination updates
There is also no new data regarding the vaccination rollout on March 16.
The number of people who have been vaccinated remains the same as yesterday with a not saying: “Due to technical issues, Public Health Scotland has not been able to provide vaccination data today (16 March 2022).
“Figures remain unchanged from those reported yesterday (15 March 2022).”
Deaths involving Covid last week
National Records of Scotland (NRS) has published a report on deaths involving Covid during the week of March 7 to 13.
During that week, 117 deaths were registered that mentioned Covid on the death certificate. This includes 12 in NHS Highland and 10 in NHS Grampian.
Of those deaths, 74 were in hospitals, 36 were in care homes and seven were at home or in a non-institutional setting.
Pete Whitehouse, director of statistical services, said: “The latest figures show that last week there were 117 deaths where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. This is six more deaths than the previous week.
“The number of deaths from all causes registered in Scotland in this week was 1,207, which is 12, or 1%, fewer than the five year average.”
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