- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many people who attended the Rangers versus Bayern Leverkusen football match on 12 March 2020 were contact traced for COVID-19, and what information it has on how many people who attended the match have since died of COVID-19.
Answer
We do not hold information as to which individuals attended the match.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 March 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it made in (a) January and (b) February 2020 of its capacity for contact testing for COVID-19, and of its ability to increase this.
Answer
Testing capacity of 350 tests per day was available in Scotland from early February 2020. Since then NHS testing capacity has grown significantly and is now over 6,000 tests per day, and adding in capacity from the Glasgow Lighthouse laboratory brings this to over 15,500 tests per day at the end of April.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-28643 by Clare Haughey on 14 May 2020, whether it plans to gather this information.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not plan to gather this information for all hospitalisations. It may be available on request from individual health boards.
The recent Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group report (published 13 May 2020) includes the number of confirmed Covid-19 deaths in Intensive Care Units only. This is the cumulative total as at 2 May; daily figures are not available.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how long it takes for the current COVID-19 testing process to process and communicate results to the testee.
Answer
Through NHS laboratories, our expectation is that test results should normally be communicated back within 24 hours, but some may take up to 48 hours. We are continuing to work with NHS National Services Scotland to secure reliable data on turnaround times to provide a baseline to report against on a weekly basis.
For testing carried out by the UK Government expanded testing sites the vast majority of test results are sent automatically within 48 hours, or 72 hours for home tests.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it was given specific scientific advice regarding COVID-19 testing prior to 1 February 2020.
Answer
Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Scottish Government received expert health protection and public health advice from a range of scientific experts including the Chief Medical Officer, Public Health Scotland, the Scottish Health Protection Network, NERVTAG and the Advisory Committee of Dangerous Pathogens.
We will continue to be guided the best scientific advice and expertise in relation to all aspects of health protection and public health.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the health secretary's comments in the Parliament on 20 May 2020 (Official Report, c.4) that she did not have information relating to the deep cleaning of the Nike store in The Centre, Livingston in early March, but that "it is something that Health Protection Scotland’s (HPS) local contact tracing team would know and pursue", whether she, through HPS, will confirm the position.
Answer
I can confirm that Health Protection Scotland have advised that, further to a risk assessment, no deep clean was required for public health purposes. This is based on the time interval between detection of the case and their contact with the store exceeding 72 hours. This was in line with UK guidance on decontamination advice at the time.
It is for the store/company to decide whether it will undertake a deep clean under these circumstances.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-28698 by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020, in which it confirmed that it does not hold information on the number of people who may have died after being discharged from hospital, whether it is able to obtain such information from other sources, and, if so, whether it will provide this information.
Answer
The Scottish Government is working with Public Health Scotland (PHS) to produce data on the number of patients who have died after discharge.
To collect this data PHS will be required to bring together the discharge database with National Records for Scotland death records. Once linked, PHS will be required to check the data for robustness and accuracy. And once they are confident in the robustness and accuracy of the data we will ensure it is made publicly available.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 May 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-28382 by Jeane Freeman on 20 May 2020, whether it will publish the correspondence from the Chief Medical Officer on 26 March 2020 to those people considered most at risk from COVID-19.
Answer
The letter from the Chief Medical Officer to those people considered most at risk from COVID-19 is published as part of an update to GPs and can be found at the following link
https://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/cmo/DC20200413Shielding.pdf
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 March 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all (a) personal protective equipment (PPE) and (b) ventilators orders that have been placed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in each month since January 2020.
Answer
In relation to a) Personal Protective Equipment, the orders placed in each month are as follows:
Pandemic Category | January | February | March | April | May | Grand Total |
APRONS - STANDARD | 3,528,000 | 13,782,000 | 1,542,000 | 36,596,600 | 198,823,382 | 254,271,982 |
COVID19 AGP NON STERILE GOWNS | 29,864 | 140,154 | 134,655 | 1,046,590 | 1,458,403 | 2,809,666 |
COVID19 AGP STERILE GOWNS | 62,350 | 151,904 | 26,820 | 190,940 | 320,662 | 752,676 |
EYE PROTECTION LENS | | | 456 | | 20,100 | 20,556 |
GOGGLES | | | | 1,539,000 | | 1,539,000 |
FULL FACE VISOR - REUSABLE | | 2,000 | | | | 2,000 |
FULL FACE VISOR - SINGLE USE | | 2,000 | 360,880 | 7,851,760 | 1,455,480 | 9,670,120 |
GLOVES EXAMINATION | 24,800,000 | | 56,219,200 | 140,611,500 | 51,448,400 | 273,079,100 |
MASK FFP2 | 300 | 520 | 602,868 | 580,360 | 960 | 1,185,008 |
MASK FFP3 | 21,180 | 1,233,370 | 519,330 | 1,225,648 | 9,420,940 | 12,420,468 |
MASK FLUID SHIELD | 8,792 | 18,648 | 27,196 | 46,200 | 2,880 | 103,716 |
MASK SURGICAL | 162,100 | 430,230 | 83,730 | 3,210 | 125,700 | 804,970 |
MASK TYPE IIR FRSM | 145,825 | 187,400 | 21,578,800 | 130,371,530 | 246,200 | 152,529,755 |
Grand Total | 28,758,411 | 15,288,226 | 79,112,735 | 315,316,150 | 262,962,087 | 701,437,609 |
Note: Figures are for the period from 1 January to 31 May 2020
In relation to b) the Scottish Government ordered ventilators in March 2020 from a range of manufacturers and as at 31 May, we have received 124 of these from Scottish procurement and 78 ventilators from the joint UK procurement exercise. We expect more deliveries to arrive over the coming weeks. If needed, to bridge any gaps between now and the delivery of new ventilators, Health Boards have worked to repurpose operating theatre anaesthetic machines for use as ventilators.
- Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 March 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to (a) roll out and (b) increase the capacity to carry out contact testing for COVID-19.
Answer
The Coronavirus (COVID-19): test, trace, isolate, support strategy was published on 4 May 2020 and sets out plans to help disrupt community transmission of the virus. The strategy is available here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-test-trace-isolate-support/