COVID-19 statistical report
As at 25 October 2021

About this release

This weekly release by Public Health Scotland presents data on COVID-19 across NHSScotland.

Main points

• As at 24 October 2021, there have been 627,596 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 15,363 of these were recorded in the most recent week, a decrease of 13.3% from the previous week.
• In the week ending 17 October 2021, 17,692 individuals were recorded in the contact tracing software, from which 24,257 unique contacts have been traced.

• In the week ending 24 October 2021, under the Community Testing Programme 21.2% of symptomatic and 9.4% of asymptomatic tests for COVID-19 were positive.
• In the week ending 19 October 2021, there were 639 admissions to hospital with a laboratory confirmed test of COVID-19. The highest number of new admissions are now in those aged 80+.
• The proportion of all people who were admitted to hospital within 14 days of a laboratory confirmed COVID-19 positive test has declined, from 12% in the week ending 31 January 2021, to 4% in the most recent week ending 10 October 2021.
• The number of new admissions to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for confirmed COVID-19 patients has increased from 33 in the week ending 16 October 2021, to 50 in the week ending 23 October 2021.
• In the week ending 24 October 2021 there were 81,402 people who arrived in Scotland from outside the UK, of which 3,176 were required to quarantine.
• Analysis of hospitalisations and more severe outcomes due to COVID-19 point to continued evidence of increased risks in most ethnic minority groups relative to the White group.

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.

Further information

The next release of this publication will be 3 November 2021.