West Dunbartonshire's weekly Covid death totals are on the up again according to the latest government figures.

Statistics from the National Records of Scotland (NRS), published on Wednesday, show that there were four more deaths recorded in West Dunbartonshire where Covid was mentioned on the death certificate for the week of November 1-7.

It's the second week in a row where four lives in the area have been lost to Covid, and takes the total number of Covid-related deaths in West Dunbartonshire to 110 in 2021, and 288 since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

As of November 7, 2021, 11,818 deaths have been registered in Scotland where the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) was mentioned on the death certificate.

In the week November 1-7, 140 deaths were registered that mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, an increase of five deaths from the previous week.

25 deaths were aged under 65, 43 were aged 65-74, and there were 72 deaths in people aged 75 or over. 78 deaths were male and 62 were female.

Glasgow City (23 deaths), East Ayrshire (14) and North Lanarkshire (11) had the highest numbers of deaths at council level.

In total, 25 (out of 32) council areas had at least one death last week.

Of the 14 deaths, 116 were in hospitals, 10 were in care homes, and 14 were at home or in a non-institutional setting.

Pete Whitehouse, director of statistical services at the NRS, said: “The latest figures show that last week there were 140 deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate. This is five more deaths than the previous week.

“The number of deaths from all causes registered in Scotland in this week was 1,288, which is 209, or 19 per cent, more than the five year average.”