Coronavirus tests show no new cases in Forth Valley

The number of patients being treated in hospital has also remained the same in the last 24 hours.

The latest figures were released shortly after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the first steps in gradually easing the lockdown restrictions Scots have faced since March 23.

There have been 919 people in Forth Valley test positive for Covid-19 since monitoring began – and only ten positive results in the last week.

Currently ten people are being treated in one of the region’s hospitals and of these, less than five are in Forth Valley Royal’s intensive care unit.

In Scotland

A total of 109,031 people have been tested through NHS labs to date. Of these, 93,743 were confirmed negative and 15,288 were positive.

However, the government has said this will be an underestimate of the number of cases. Not everyone with the virus will display symptoms and not all those with symptoms will be tested.

Yesterday, 3575 tests carried out by NHS Scotland in hospitals, care homes or the community, making a total of 159,527 COVID-19 tests through NHS labs to date.

In addition, there were 1445 drive through and mobile tests carried out by the Regional Testing Centres in Scotland bringing the total to 56,132 tests to date.

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