COVID-19 statistical report
26 May 2021
Management Information Statistics
- Published
- 26 May 2021
- Type
- Statistical report
- Author
- Public Health Scotland
About this release
This weekly release by Public Health Scotland presents data on COVID-19 across NHSScotland.
Main points
- In the week ending 23 May 2021, 2,271 individuals were recorded in the contact tracing software, from which 8,237 unique contacts have been traced.
- As at 23 May 2021, there have been 232,343 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 2,373 in the week ending 23 May.
- In the week ending 19 May 2021, there were 75 admissions to hospital with a laboratory confirmed test of COVID-19.
- In the week ending 22 May 2021 there were 7 new admissions to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for confirmed COVID-19 patients.
- In the week ending 23 May 2021 there were 6,735 people who arrived in Scotland from outside the UK, of which 5,103 were required to quarantine (of which 541 were quarantined in a hotel) and 3,644 were contacted by the National Contact Tracing Centre.
- In the week ending 23 May 2021, under the Community Testing Programme 5.6% of symptomatic and 2.8% of asymptomatic tests for COVID-19 were positive.
- As at 24 May 2021, there were 183,446 individuals on the shielding list in Scotland. This equates to 3.4% of the Scottish population.
Additional charts and data are available to view in the interactive dashboard accompanying this report.
Wider impact detailed analysis
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have a wider impact on health and care as a result of the lockdown, economic pressures and changes to health services.
A range of analyses on the impact of COVID-19 across aspects of NHS Scotland is available on the interactive information tool (external website).
Background
Since the start of the outbreak, Public Health Scotland (PHS) has been working closely with the Scottish Government and health and care colleagues to support the surveillance and monitoring of COVID-19 amongst the population. There is a large amount of data being regularly published regarding COVID-19. For example, Coronavirus in Scotland – Scottish Government (external website) and Deaths involving coronavirus in Scotland – National Records of Scotland (external website). This report complements the range of existing data currently available.
Find out more
Previous Publications
Versions of the Weekly national respiratory report publication released before 30 November 2022 may be found on the Public Health Scotland website.
Versions of the COVID-19 weekly statistical report publication released before 30 November 2022 may be found on the Public Health Scotland website.
Open data
Open data from this publication is available from the following weblinks:
Further data
- The COVID-19 Vaccine Wastage datafile was updated on 18 April 2024 to include the most recent information.
- The COVID-19 in Adult Care Homes in Scotland datafile was updated on 27 July 2023 to include more recent information.
- 28 September 2022 COVID-19 statistical report publication contains information on COVID-19 infection and vaccination in pregnancy in Scotland.
- 2 March 2022 COVID-19 statistical report publication contains information on Highest Risk (shielding patients list)
- 7 November 2023 Community Acute Respiratory Infection (CARI) surveillance in primary care contains information on flu Vaccine effectiveness in community settings.
- 25 May 2023 Interim 2022/23 influenza vaccine effectiveness: six European studies, October 2022 to January 2023, contains information on flu Vaccine effectiveness in hospital settings.
- 13 January 2024 Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programs in the WHO European Region, December 2020 to March 2023, contains information on lives saved due to COVID-19 vaccination
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Older versions of this publication
Versions of this publication released before 16 March 2020 may be found on the Data and Intelligence, Health Protection Scotland or Improving Health websites.