Slight fall in number of Covid-19 hospital patients

The number of Covid-19 patients in hospital in Scotland has gone down by almost 6% in the last week, new data has shown.

In the week ending November 27, there were on average 570 patients in hospital with coronavirus, according to Public Health Scotland (PHS).

This was a 5.9% decrease from the previous week, ending November 20, when there were 606 patients.

National Records of Scotland data released last week showed there were 40 deaths registered in the seven days to November 20, seven fewer than the previous week.

It meant that as of Sunday November 20, there had been 16,092 deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

PHS said that by the week ending November 27, of the 1,784,619 people vaccinated for Covid-19 as part of the winter 2022 vaccination programme, 91.2% were jabbed against flu at the same appointment.