Question reference: S5W-29833
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 12 June 2020
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 June 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people to date have been captured in the test, trace, isolate, support strategy as a result of coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, and how these figures will be regularly reported to the public.
Answer
The Test and Protect data, which was successfully rolled out across all Health Boards from 28 May. From 28 May to 14 June, provisional Test and Protect figures are: 992 cases (of which 891 have completed contact tracing), and 1,239 contacts traced from completed and in-progress cases.
The COVID-19 data and trend charts for Scotland are published daily and provide a range of information, including the number of care homes notifying cases of COVID-19 and the number of suspected cases of COVID-19 in care homes. The data also includes the daily number of people in hospital with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 but does not include details on how many of these are care home residents or staff.
Test and Protect was rolled out across Scotland on 28 May 2020 and the Test and Protect data is published on Public Health Scotland's website at:
The cumulative number of people tested and the number of positive and negative tests is also provided. You can find figures updated every day at 2pm (including care home data) here: Coronavirus (COVID-19): Daily data for Scotland .