THERE have been 139 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Scotland in the past 24 hours.
The latest Scottish Government figures also show that no new deaths have been no new deaths recorded of people who have previously tested positive for coronavirus in the same period.
The total number of deaths of people who have previously tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland remains at 7660.
There were a total of 13,744 tests for Covid-19 carried out that reported results with 1.1% of them showing a positive result.
A total of 58 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed Covid-19 and 11 of these patients were in intensive care.
In terms of Scotland's vaccine roll-out, a total of 2,833,761 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 1,348,050 have received their second dose.
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