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Health bosses issue warning over new pills that could supercharge Scotland's drug death rate

Lethal new pills on the street have sparked a major warning they could fuel Scotland’s drug death toll.

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New report highlights the changing severity of Covid-19 and its impact on Scottish hospitals

Public Health Scotland have released a new report that investigates the changes to the severity of Covid-19 and its impact on hospitals in Scotland. The report has found that the changing strains and variants are now causing less hospitalisations.

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Fourth Monkeypox case confirmed in Scotland by health officials

Scotland now has four confirmed cases of Monkeypox, authorities have confirmed.

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Scheduled operations in Scots hopsitals at highest number since before pandemic

Scheduled operations in Scots hospitals reached the highest number since the start of the pandemic, last month.

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Scots schools with highest Covid-19 infections since start of pandemic

The Scottish schools with the highest Covid-19 outbreaks since the pandemic have been named by Public Health Scotland.

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World Health Organization (WHO) monitoring hepatitis surge affecting children in Tayside

The World Health Organization (WHO) is monitoring growing cases of hepatitis in children across the UK – some of which were detected in Tayside.

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Investigation after child hepatitis cases uncovered in health board area

Public Heath Scotland is investigating the cause of a small number of cases of hepatitis in young children across the central belt of Scotland, including in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

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Today's Public Health Scotland update as country records weekend spike in Covid hospital patients

Scotland has recorded a weekend spike in the number of Covid patients being treated in hospitals across the country.Figures published by the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland today show 158 people are currently being treated for the virus in the nation's hospitals compared to 128 on Friday.The rise comes as a further 1,250 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Scotland in the last 24 hours – including 112 in Ayrshire.Public Health Scotland say the national figure is lower than expected due to a data flow issue in NHS Grampian over the weekend.They organisation say the problem has been resolved and will be reflected in tomorrow’s figures.No new deaths were recorded overnight meaning Scotland's death toll from the virus

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Latest Public Health Scotland Covid infection rate data as IT issues hit case numbers

Scotland – but there have been no new deaths from the disease.Public Health Scotland said this afternoon that, due to technology issues, the latest figure for cases covers the last 26 hours rather than the usual 24-hour period.Data from NHS health boards in Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway, Orkney and Shetland may be incomplete, health chiefs say, due to IT issues.

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Coronavirus Scotland LIVE as legal concerns raised after hospital patients moved to care homes at height of pandemic

The Mental Welfare Commission is looking into legal concerns raised after patients were discharged from hospitals into care homes during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.The report will examine.the decision-making for those who lacked capacity before being transported to facilities between March to May 2020.Last month Public Health Scotland said it "cannot rule out" a link between hospital discharges and Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes, with nearly a third of those experiencing an outbreak.It comes as the Scottish Government announced yesterday a spike in cases has been recorded with 394 new cases in the last 24 hours.More than 1,800 Scottish nurses and midwives re-registered with the profession in response to the coronavirus

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Scottish Government confirms no new coronavirus deaths with 85 positive cases overnight

coronavirus deaths were recorded overnight in Scotland with 85 new positive cases. The Scottish Government announced the latest figures on Wednesday, May 5, as efforts to control the virus spreading continue.

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Coronavirus cases for your area as Nicola Sturgeon announces lockdown easing plan for Scotland

coronavirus case number in all local authority areas in Scotland has been published by health officials.Public Health Scotland said that in the week between February 15 and 21, Scotland recorded a total of 5,736 positive cases of Covid-19 - which represents 5.0% of people tested for the virus.Scotland’s seven-day positivity rate per 100,000 population in those seven days stood at 105.0, according to the latest data.Falkirk recorded the highest number of cases per 100,000 population during this period, with West Lothian, North Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire all recording high figures.Shetland and Orkney recorded no new coronavirus cases over the seven days.Nicola Sturgeon said that Scotland is now seeing lower test

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Christmas week most deadly for COVID-19 in Perth and Kinross since May

Perth and Kinross over the festive period, according to new statistics. The virus was recorded on 11 deaths registered in the week starting December 21 - the highest weekly total since May 4 .Incident management team set up as COVID cases rise at poultry plantThere were nine deaths recorded the week after, bringing the total in the region to 133, according to the National Records of Scotland.

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Latest Public Health Scotland data reveals Covid-19 cases double in West Lothian over past week

Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.The latest data shows that West Lothian has had a significant spike in Covid-19 cases.The Public Health Scotland (PHS) figures as of January 4 shows that there were 41 new reported positive cases of the contagion and 321 over the past week.This takes the total in the county to 4580 since the first positive test was returned in West Lothian on March 9 of last year.When The Courier last reported on the PHS statistics on December 29 there were 155 over a seven day period.This means West Lothian has 321 cases per 100,000, which again places the county above the national average of 279.Unfortunately this jump is also represented in the PHS heatmap of

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0