COVID-19 statistical report
17 February 2021

About this release

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

Main points

• From 8 December 2020 to 14 February 2021, 1,255,190 individuals received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccination, as reported in the Vaccination Management Tool.

• In the week ending 14 February 2021, 4,660 individuals were recorded in the contact tracing software, from which 7,560 unique contacts have been traced.
• As at 14 February 2021, there have been 192,375 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 5,046 in the week ending 14 February.
• In the week ending 12 February, there were 560 admissions to hospital with a laboratory confirmed test of COVID-19.
• In the week ending 13 February there were 87 new admissions to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) for confirmed COVID-19 patients.
• In the week ending 14 February there were 6,634 people who arrived in Scotland from outside the UK, of which 5,717 were required to quarantine and 2,875 were contacted by the National Contact Tracing Centre.
• In the week ending 11 February, 0.2% of key healthcare workers who were tested for COVID-19 tested positive.
• During the week ending 14 February, there were active confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 123 out of 1052 care homes that returned data (1,065 care homes in total).

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 webite). This report complements the range of existing data currently available.