A nurse gives a person a Covid-19 vaccination. Photo: PA
SCOTLAND has recorded 28 further deaths linked to Covid-19 in 24 hours.
This brings the total under this measure - of people who died within 28 days of testing positive - to 11,924.
The latest data also shows that 3093 new cases of the coronavirus have been identified in Scotland. Of these, 13.1% were reinfections.
The figures also show that, on Thursday, there were 1702 people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19.
There were 29 people in intensive care with the disease, with four of those having been there for longer than 28 days.
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