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A FURTHER 67 new Covid-19 cases have been detected across the NHS Highland area.

Alness and Invergordon reported 72 and 42 Covid infections respectively in the seven days to January 7.

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More than 3000 coronavirus cases have been detected across the NHS Highland area since the pandemic began.

TWO Highland care homes have had outbreaks of Covid-19, NHS Highland has confirmed.

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THE Covid-19 infection rate in the Highlands has fallen slightly – but still sits above 200 cases per 100,000 people.

There have been 97 additional confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Highland area in the past 24 hours, new figures have shown.

The number of coronavirus cases in the most populated area of Sutherland is on the rise, according to an interactive public health dashboard.

Alness' 72 cases means it has an infection rate four times higher than Scotland's, while Invergordon's is more than twice the national level

FIFTY-eight new Covid-19 cases have been detected across the NHS Highland region in the past day.

The focus was on the Covid pandemic response and the actions taken to support communities at a meeting of Highland Council yesterday.

NHS Highland has been notified of seven cases of Covid-19 infection in residents of an independent care home in Ross-shire.

ONE-hundred new Covid-19 cases were detected across the NHS Highland area in the past day.

But half of all care home residents in Scotland have now received their first Covid vaccination, the First Minister also revealed.

THE Covid infection rate across Highland Council has broken records again – after it rose to 212.9 cases per 100,000 people.

A FURTHER 83 Covid-19 cases were detected across the NHS Highland region in the past day.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new £4.6 billion package of measures to help businesses through the lockdown.

A SPIKE in Covid numbers across Highland Council in recent weeks saw the region's infection rate soar to record levels over Christmas and New Year.

NO fewer than 450 positive tests for Covid-19 were recorded across the NHS Highland area over the long New Year weekend.