COVID-19 statistical report
As at 26 July 2021

About this release

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

Main points

• As at 25 July 2021, there have been 341,015 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 9,047 of these were recorded in the week ending 25 July 2021, a decrease of 35.1% from the previous week.
• In the week ending 25 July 2021, 8,954 individuals were recorded in the contact tracing software, from which 18,987 unique contacts have been traced.

• In the week ending 25 July 2021, under the Community Testing Programme 28.4% of symptomatic and 7.4% of asymptomatic tests for COVID-19 were positive.
• In the week ending 20 July 2021, there were 450 admissions to hospital with a laboratory confirmed test of COVID-19. The highest number of new admissions were seen amongst those aged 40-59 years. 
• The proportion of all people who were admitted to hospital within 14 days of a laboratory confirmed COVID-19 positive test has declined, from 13% in the week commencing 25 January 2021, to 3% in the most recent week commencing 05 July 2021.
• The number of new admissions to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for confirmed COVID-19 patients has increased, from 44 in the week ending 17 July 2021, to 50 in the week ending 24 July 2021.
• In the week ending 25 July 2021 there were 21,419 people who arrived in Scotland from outside the UK, of which 17,854 were required to quarantine (of which 613 were quarantined in a hotel).

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 4 August 2021.