A TOTAL of 551 cases of Covid-19 have been linked to the TRNSMT music festival held in Glasgow last month, new data shows.
The multi-day event on Glasgow Green saw up to 50,000 spectators flock to Scotland’s biggest city for one of the first mass post-pandemic events in the country.
Attendees were asked to bring proof of a negative lateral flow test in order to enter.
According to data from Public Health Scotland (PHS) gained after a Freedom of Information request, 551 people who tested positive for the virus reported having been at the festival around the time of their illness when speaking to contact tracers.
Some 1645 people were also found to have been close contacts of those who tested positive.
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According to PHS, the figures do not mean Covid-19 was contracted at the event, only that those who spoke to Test and Protect recorded having been at TRNSMT around the time of their illness.
Following the event, national clinical director Professor Jason Leitch said the festival was not responsible for a spike in cases.
In the week immediately following the festival, 30,928 cases of Covid-19 were recorded as part of the Scottish Government’s daily tally, meaning the number of confirmed cases from TRNSMT was 1.7% of the total.
However, it is not possible to narrow down when each case was reported.
Meanwhile, Scotland yesterday recorded 16 Covid deaths and 2627 new cases in the previous 24 hours, according to the latest data.
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It means the death toll under this daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – stands at 8773.
The Scottish Government’s daily figures showed there were 35,891 new tests, of which 7.9% were positive, up from 6.8% the previous day.
A total of 990 people were in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, down 33 in 24 hours.
Some 64 were in intensive care, down five.
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