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REGIONAL BREAKDOWN: No new Covid-19 cases confirmed in Fife in past 24 hours while 13 further people test positive across Tayside

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There have been no new Covid-19 cases reported in Fife in the past 24 hours.

The latest figures from the Scottish Government show the area’s total since the pandemic began remains at 826 and 69 people with a confirmed case of the virus are receiving hospital treatment.

Since Saturday’s update, a further 13 people across Tayside have tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total to 1,658.

There are 13 people in hospital in the area with confirmed Covid-19, the figures also show.

There have been no new cases recorded in the islands; Shetland has had 54 positive cases, there has been seven on Orkney and six in the Western Isles.

A total of 101,713 people in Scotland have been tested through NHS labs to date. Of these, 86,612 were confirmed negative and 15,101 were positive – an increase of 60 from Saturday’s update.

Of the people who have tested positive, 3,560 inpatients have been discharged from hospital since March 5.

Scotland’s death toll has risen to 2,270 after nine more people who tested positive for the disease died.

Politicians urge caution each week with weekend figures, stressing deaths registered at the weekend tend to be relatively low.

Scotland’s Health Secretary Jeane Freeman issued a reminder to everyone in Scotland about the rules around self-isolation today, saying the “message may have become confused in the last 24 hours because of events in other parts of the UK”.

Speaking at the Scottish Government’s latest coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh, she said self-isolating is not the same as lockdown and means “you should not leave the house for any reason”.

Ms Freeman told the coronavirus briefing at the Scottish Government headquarters: “So let me be clear what we mean here in Scotland. Self-isolation means the following: if you think you have the virus, if you have a persistent cough, or a fever, or loss of taste and/or smell, you should self-isolate at home for a minimum of seven days.

“In that time you should get tested if you can, bearing in mind that testing is now open to anyone over the age of five who has symptoms.

“At the same time anyone in your household should self-isolate for 14 days to see if they develop virus, and if they do, they should self-isolate for seven days from that point.

“From the eighth day, if you do not have any more symptoms you can go back, back to the lockdown measures that apply across the country.”