SCOTLAND has recorded 7315 new cases of Covid-19, the latest daily figures show.
A further 31 deaths of coronavirus patients were recorded over the 24-hour period.
This brings the total under this measure - of people in Scotland who died within 28 days of testing positive - to 11,582.
The number of Scots in hospital with the disease has dropped slightly.
There were 2338 people in Scotland's hospitals with Covid-19 on Tuesday - 24 in intensive care. This is down from the record high of 2405 reported on April 3.
However, there are still more Scots in hospital now than there were during any of the previous waves of the pandemic.
In terms of the vaccination effort, 4,365,478 people have received their first jag, 4,096,193 have received their second, and have 3,456,388 received a third dose or booster.
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