The variety of sufferers in Scottish hospitals with coronavirus has risen by 15 per cent in per week, regardless of a fall in instances, new figures present. Whereas the newest information from Public Well being Scotland (PHS) reveals a drop in total instances for the second week in a row, the variety of folks in hospital with Covid-19 elevated to 1,669.
The newest PHS information for the week ending July 10, present that throughout Scotland reported instances of coronavirus fell by nearly 10 per cent. Figures additionally present 16,521 instances of coronavirus had been reported that week - a drop of 9.5 per cent from the earlier week.
Whereas the quantity of sufferers with coronavirus in hospital grew, the variety of complete instances in Scotland fell. New hospital admissions decreased from 1,170 within the week ending July 3 to 990 within the week ending July 10 - a drop of 15.4 per cent.
It's the second week in a row that the entire variety of reported Covid instances in Scotland has fallen - with 19,063 instances reported within the week ending June 26, falling to 18,248 within the week ending July 3. Of these instances reported within the week ending July 10, a fifth (20.5 per cent) had been reinfections.
The variety of sufferers in hospital with the virus is properly beneath the height of two,383 which was recorded on two dates in March and April this yr.
The information comes as Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5 proceed to brush via Scotland and the remainder of the UK. Specialists predict BA.5 will overtake because the dominant Covid-19 pressure.
The newest Covid info ongov.uk learn: “UKHSA’s newest evaluation means that Omicron BA.5 is rising 35.1 per cent sooner than Omicron BA.2, whereas Omicron BA.4 is rising roughly 19.1% sooner.
“This implies that BA.5 is prone to turn into the dominant Covid-19 variant within the UK. The rising prevalence of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 is prone to be an element within the current enhance in instances seen within the UK and elsewhere, although there's presently no proof that Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 trigger extra extreme sickness than earlier variants.”