Stay Safe Dundee Weekly Briefing: 27 November — 3 December 2020

Stay Safe Dundee’s weekly briefings occur each Sunday which provides information on the number of cases, number of people in hospital and ICU and the differences from the week before.

Summary

Positive cases (152, -6 from last week)

This week has seen a decrease in the number of cases from last week which stood at 158, it is now down by 6 to 152.

7 day positive rate (101.8, -8.7 from last week)

The 7 day positive rate has decreased by quite a bit. An 8.7 decrease looks good but as ever more needs to be done to supress the virus as much as possible

Patients in hospital (70, -5 from last week)

70 patients were admitted to hospital in the NHS Tayside area which is a decrease of 5 from last week.

ICU patients (5, +5 from last week)

However, despite it is great to see numbers decreasing, ICU patients have gone up by 5 from the last week. 5 have been admitted to ICU in the NHS Tayside area.

Cases by neighbourhood

Cases across Dundee City have lowered in areas quite well. Many areas have left the 100,000 per 7 days compared to last week which is great news. The largest area which has new cases is the Perth Road area with 30 new cases and the lowest area this week is Broughty Ferry East which has no cases at all.

• Ardler and St Marys — 11 new cases
• Balgay — 1–4 new cases
• Barnhill — 1–4 new cases
• Baxter Park — 1–4 new cases
• Broughty Ferry East — 0 new cases
• Caird Park — 1–4 new cases
• Charleston — 5 new cases
• City Centre — 1–4 new cases
• Craigie — 1–4 new cases
• Docks and Wellgate — 1–4 new cases
• Douglas East — 1–4 new cases
• Douglas West — 1–4 new cases
• Downfield — 1–4 new cases
• Fairmuir — 1–4 new cases
• Fintry — 8 new cases
• Hilltown — 1–4 new cases
• Kirkton — 1–4 new cases
• Law — 1–4 new cases
• Linlathen and Midcraigie — 1–4 new cases
• Lochee — 5 new cases
• Logie and Blackness — 6 new cases
• Menzieshill — 6 new cases
• Perth Road — 30 new cases
• Stobswell — 7 new cases
• The Glens — 5 new cases
• West Ferry — 1–4 new cases
• West Pikerro — 8 new cases
• West End — 1–4 new cases
• Western Edge — 1–4 new cases
• Whitfield — 1–4 new cases

Weekly trend

The number of cases have decreased throughout the period of last week but had risen by the end of the week. The number of deaths (in red), stayed relatively the same albeit a increase on 30 November.