ANOTHER 31 people have died in Scotland after contracting Covid-19, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
A further 769 people have also tested positive in the previous 24 hours, with a positivity rate of 3.7%.
The deaths, recorded in the previous 28 days, bring the total under that measurement to 7084.
Some 967 people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, a decrease of 51 in 24 hours.
Of those, 89 are in intensive care, a drop of four.
A total of 1,515,980 have now received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine – an increase of 27,903 in 24 hours.
The First Minister, speaking in the Scottish Parliament, said the R number remains slightly below one.
Sturgeon told MSPs: "Again, I want to send my condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one."
She added: "The fact that more than one-and-a-half million people have now received the first dose of vaccination is I think an important milestone.
"We've now given a first dose to almost exactly one third of the adult population and that includes virtually everyone in the top four clinical priority groups recommended by the JCVI."
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