Covid-19 mandatory hotel quarantine breakdown: FOI release

Information requested

1) Since the introduction of mandatory hotel quarantine for persons returning from red list countries to Scotland how many people have been subject to hotel quarantined in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow hotels up to the date of this request?

2) Of those personnel in Scottish hotel quarantine, how many have tested positive for COVID whilst in quarantine in each of the cities listed?

3)Of those tested positive during hotel quarantine, how many have tested positive for the Indian variant of COVID?

Response

1/2. Please see the below table for an answer to these queries. It should be noted that this data is for management purposes only and should not be seen as an entirely reliable reflection of the total number of international arrivals into Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. Public Health Scotland will likely hold more up-to-date information.

Centre Name	Number of Individuals	Number of Positives
Edinburgh	2335	65
Glasgow	636	6
Aberdeen	519	5

3. This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have some of the information you have requested. The correspondent may wish to request the information from Public Health Scotland.

Statistics around positive cases of COVID-19 can be viewed at the following Public Health Scotland link: Daily COVID-19 Cases in Scotland - Datasets - Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data (nhs.scot). It should be noted that passengers testing positive during managed isolation are required to extend their stay.

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