Nicola Sturgeon’s Coronavirus Report: 1,456 People Tested Positive for Covid-19, and 15 More Deaths Reported

Coronavirus in Scotland: 15 new deaths registered as the country confirms more than 1,000 cases

Scotland has recorded 15 coronavirus deaths and 1,456 positive tests in the last 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon announced.

The Prime Minister told the Scottish government’s coronavirus report that the death toll under this measure, of people who tested positive for the virus for the first time in the previous 28 days, has risen to 2,625.

He said 49,164 people tested positive in Scotland, up from 47,708 on Monday.

The daily rate of positivity of the test is 11.4%, compared to 6.4% the day before.

Of the new cases, 500 are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 393 in Lanarkshire, 198 in Lothian and 116 in Ayrshire and Arran.

There are 824 hospitalized people confirmed with the virus, an increase of 70 in 24 hours.

Of these patients, 69 are in intensive care, an increase of eight.

Nicola Sturgeon says the interim data indicates that the breakdown of new cases is as follows:

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde: 500

NHS Ayrshire and Arran: 116

Gateshead Council Leader Martin Gannon said the government should listen more to local politicians about Level 3 restrictions.

He said that even taking into account the large number of students who have tested positive for coronavirus, “the underlying numbers are under control in the Northeast.”

He told the Palestinian Authority news agency: “Matt Hancock and his colleagues must stop dictating to us and start listening to our strategy, and admit that they must work with us, not against us.”

Gannon did not know when the next round of talks was planned and said previous meetings were canceled on short notice, once just three minutes before an agreed start.

Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon will deliver a coronavirus briefing at 12:15 p.m. M. With Social Security Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville and National Clinical Director Jason Leitch.

Just over 59,000 Covid-19-related deaths have been recorded in the UK.

Figures released Tuesday by the ONS show that 53,863 Covid-19-related deaths had occurred in England and Wales as of October 9, and had been recorded as of October 17.

Figures released last week by the Scottish National Registries showed that 4,301 Covid-19 related deaths had been recorded in Scotland as of October 11, while 915 deaths had occurred in Northern Ireland as of October 9 (and are had registered until October 14). , according to the Northern Ireland Statistical and Research Agency.

Together these figures mean that 59,079 deaths have so far been recorded in the UK, where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, including suspected cases.

The number of Covid-19 related deaths recorded in England and Wales has risen for the fifth week in a row.

A total of 438 deaths recorded in the week ending October 9 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

This represents an increase of 321 deaths in the week through October 2.

It is the highest number of recorded deaths involving Covid-19 since the week ending July 3.

Test subjects could be exposed to the new coronavirus in controlled settings starting in January in a bid to speed up vaccine development, authorities confirmed.

The government supports so-called human provocation studies, whereby a small number of participants who have received a vaccine will intentionally expose themselves to Covid-19 to assess the efficacy of the vaccine.

These studies are expected to help accelerate vaccine development.

In the trials, a small number of young, healthy participants, ages 18 to 30, will receive a candidate vaccine, which was previously evaluated in previous clinical trials.

This group of up to 90 participants will then be exposed to the virus in a controlled environment.

They will be carefully monitored to evaluate how the vaccine works and possible side effects.

Officials said human challenge trials offer an opportunity to accelerate vaccine development.

More than half of parents who have previously illegally downloaded content for their children to view say they do so more frequently during the crash, new research suggests.

A report on digital piracy by online safety group Internet Matters found that 56% of parents who had already downloaded content illegally for their children admitted to doing so more frequently since the shutdown, and more than a quarter (27% ) said he felt comfortable doing it.

But the research cautions that parents should be concerned about where they download content, highlighting data from Industry Trust for IP Awareness, which suggests that one in three people who have accessed content illegally have been exposed to explicit or offensive content, for example through pop-up windows.

That data also showed that nearly half of those who had downloaded something illegally had been exposed to a virus or some kind of hacking attempt.

Internet Matters said the increase in parents accessing such content on behalf of their children during the confinement was particularly concerning because nearly one in five of the parents asked (18%) said they thought the process was safe.

Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London, said there is “light at the end of the tunnel” regarding Britain receiving a vaccine for Covid-19.

When asked when the UK might see a vaccine, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today show: “I’m really quite optimistic.

“I think there is light at the end of the tunnel, in the sense that a lot of vaccine trials are going on under very, very well controlled conditions.

“I’d be surprised if some of those vaccine studies didn’t report this side of Christmas.

“And of course some of those vaccines have been pre-purchased and pre-packaged and ready for distribution against the possibility of being found to be effective in phase three trials.

“So I think there will be limited stocks of vaccines that will be available to people at higher risk early next year.

“But, of course, there will not be enough vaccines to implement a complete vaccination program; we have to do it step by step and be cautious. “

Manchester MP Lucy Powell said the government’s response to Greater Manchester on Tuesday morning was an “insult”.

She tweeted: “Where to start with the government’s response to GM this morning:

“- It is not a discussion in good faith, but only 2 ministerial meetings.

“- I have been in Level 2 since July, when our rates are lower than those of the lower regions today.

“- Rates are falling in Mcr and are stabilizing throughout the region.

“- The offer of £ 7.85 / person is an insult.”

Figures released by the Scottish government show coronavirus infection rates in all areas of Edinburgh, with six areas not registering a single new case in the seven-day period.

Prime Minister Mark Drakeford said the gap between low and high incidence areas in Wales has “narrowed” in the last 10 days.

He told BBC Breakfast: “I fear that if we do not take action, it is only a matter of time before even Ceredigion begins to feel the impact of the rising tide.

“In places like Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, they are rural areas of Wales. Their hospitals are small. Even a modest increase in coronavirus cases in those parts of Wales will put the health service under real pressure.

“Other parts of Wales have worked very hard to help protect those parts of Wales where the virus has continued to be suppressed.

“This is the time when we need a genuine national effort, all areas of Wales, all the citizens of Wales, as part of a great national effort.”

The new data shows a breakdown of coronavirus rates by area over a seven-day period.