From BBC Scotland today:

The number of Covid infections in Scotland has fallen slightly in the last week despite a rise across the UK, according to new figures.

Last week’s ONS Covid infection survey estimated that about one in 50 people had the virus on any day in the previous week.

This was down from one in 45 two weeks earlier.

But total infections in the UK have risen by 31%, the biggest percentage jump since June.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63245575

Slightly? From 1 in 50 to 1 in 45, for 5.4 million Scots, is a 9.9% fall in one week, in a downward trend, and 12 000 fewer folk that might die or get long Covid – significant not slight, I’d say.

How do we know it’s not just a one week, thus not significant, variation but a trend? How do we know things are not going well elsewhere in the UK?

See this from the ONS:

So, only in Scotland a steady downward trend. Who can be ‘blamed’ for this? Scots? The SNP?