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Daily COVID-19 Cases in Scotland

This dataset provides information on number of new daily confirmed cases, negative cases, deaths, testing by NHS Labs (Pillar 1) and UK Government (Pillar 2), new hospital admissions and new ICU admissions from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Scotland, including cumulative totals and population rates at Scotland, NHS Board and Council Area levels (where possible). Seven day positive cases and population rates are also presented by Neighbourhood Area (Intermediate Zone 2011). Information on how PHS publish small are COVID figures is available on the PHS website.

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. Clinical presentation may range from mild-to-moderate illness to pneumonia or severe acute respiratory infection. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 12 March 2020. We now have spread of COVID-19 within communities in the UK.

Information on COVID-19, including stay at home advice for people who are self-isolating and their households, can be found on NHS Inform.

Data visualisation of Scottish COVID-19 cases is available on the Public Health Scotland - Covid 19 Scotland dashboard).

Further information on coronavirus in Scotland is available on the Scottish Government – Coronavirus in Scotland page, where further breakdown of coronavirus data is also published daily.

Please note the Scotland COVID-19 dashboard this data corresponds to has moved to a new platform on Wednesday 29nd July, with additional data made available. From this date onwards, the “Cases By Health Board” and “Cases By Council Area” resources feature additional data columns, and the dataset includes additional resources featuring time trend data.

From 14/12/2020 confirmed positive cases are now allocated to an area based on the postcode recorded in the testing system. Previously cases were allocated to local areas mainly based on their usual residential address recorded in the Community Health Index (CHI) database. This change will impact on newly reported cases on this day.

Please note: The backlog of hospital admissions data from 24th- 27th February has been added for all Boards except NHS Lanarkshire who are still having submission issues.

As part of ongoing data quality checks, it was identified that a small number of deaths had been incorrectly flagged as duplicates. This has been fixed and will not be an issue going forward but it means that an additional 3 deaths have been added to the cumulative total today (04/03/2021). This is unrelated to the additional cases identified through improved linkage that were added to the cumulative total yesterday (03/03/2021).

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Source Case data reported by Health Protection Scotland (HPS) from a laboratory confirmed report , deaths from NRS records where a person has died within 28 days of a laboratory confirmed report of COVID-19. Testing data from NHS Scotland Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland (ECOSS). Hospital admissions from RAPID dataset, ICU admissions from Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group (SICSAG), linked to ECOSS testing data.
Author PHS Open Data Team
Last Updated March 8, 2021, 14:01 (GMT)
Created April 22, 2020, 13:47 (BST)
Contact Address Public Health Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB
Subject Coronavirus
Frequency Daily
Time frame of data and timeliness Case count is number of cases reported to HPS as of 08:00 (GMT), published at 14:00 (GMT) daily.
Coverage All cases in Scotland reported to Health Protection Scotland, including UK Government testing sites data.
Completeness Case data is based on cases reported to Health Protection Scotland by diagnostic laboratories, deaths are based on the number of individuals who die within 28 days of a laboratory confirmed report of COVID-19 and are registered with National Records for Scotland.
Accuracy There may be some minor fluctuations in the daily number of cases due to laboratory reporting delays and additional information becoming available, in which case the data is revised in a future next update. ICU Admissions: On 30th October it came to our attention that there is an ongoing issue when linking ICU data to the lab data for COVID-19 test results. Any COVID-19 positive patients with a missing CHI that had a first positive test in the community are unable to be linked to the ICU data. As a result the COVID-19 positive numbers could be underreported by a small number.
Continuity of data Data collection changed from lab reported line listings to an ECOSS feed on 21st March. From 18 June, the data released includes testing results from the UK Government’s Regional Testing Centres, as well as data from NHS Laboratories, including historic test results. Introducing the UK Government sites data has accounted for approximately 2.500 positive cases since the start of March. No dates were available in the UK Government Testing site data from 15-25 April. These samples have been assigned a specimen date in the midpoint of this date range (20 April), which causes an artificial spike in the daily trend data. Local Authority is derived from an individual’s postcode on the CHI (Community Health Index) database and testing data are reported using the latest postcode information. Therefore, if an individual changes postcode on CHI they may change Local Authority area. The CHI database is updated monthly. This may affect trend comparisons for the numbers of cases tested by Local Authority. From 14/12/2020 confirmed positive cases are now allocated to an area based on the postcode recorded in the testing system. Previously cases were allocated to local areas mainly based on their usual residential address recorded in the Community Health Index (CHI) database. This change will impact on newly reported cases on this day.
Concepts and definitions Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. Clinical presentation may range from mild-to-moderate illness to pneumonia or severe acute respiratory infection. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 12 March 2020. Case data is based on cases reported to HPS by diagnostic laboratories as of 08:00 (GMT). The data are based on a live data feed system which is subject to daily change. Therefore, the figures may differ from snapshot data that have been made public. There may be some minor fluctuations in the daily number of cases due to laboratory reporting delays and additional information becoming available. The number of deaths is defined as the total number of individuals who die within 28 days of a laboratory confirmed report of COVID-19 and are registered with National Records for Scotland. Please note that the updated methodology for determining COVID-19 related ICU admissions has been applied to the historic data. The updated definition is as follows: A patient who has tested positive for COVID at any time in the 21 days prior to admission to ICU, or who have tested positive from the data of admission up to and including the date of ICU discharge.
Disclosure Suppression of values 0-2 for 7 day counts of positive cases by neighbourhood area.
Revision statement There may be some minor fluctuations in the daily number of cases due to laboratory reporting delays and additional information becoming available, in which case the data is revised in a future next update.
Format csv
Language English
Links

Public Health Scotland - Covid 19 Scotland dashboard

PHS - Publishing small area COVID figures

NHS Inform - Coronavirus

Scottish Government – Coronavirus in Scotland

Scottish Government – Coronavirus: daily data for Scotland

Public Health England COVID-19 Dashboard

Public Health Wales COVID-19 Dashboard

Northern Ireland COVID-19 Statistics Portal
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