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The number of Covid fatalities recorded in Scotland hit the highest level since February last week, with 165 deaths registered that involved Covid-19, 30 more than the previous week.
National Records of Scotland, the government statistics agency, said 124 people died in hospitals last week, with the overall total for recorded Covid fatalities since the start of the pandemic in Scotland now at 10,991.
After months of calls for ministers to produce these figures, Scot Gov agency Public Health Scotland reveals that up to 1 in 3 “Covid” admissions this year were patients in hospitals due to other illnesses, and not primarily because of the virus pic.twitter.com/QBRd25pJKm
There have been 1,847 new coronavirus cases in Lithuania over the past 24 hours, the country’s statistics office has said – the highest number of cases since early January.
The office also confirmed 14 Covid-related deaths, according to public broadcaster LRT. One of the patients who died was fully vaccinated.
