Coronavirus in Scotland: 199 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours and no further deaths

A total of 222,161 people have now tested positive in Scotland up from 221,962 the previous day.

No new deaths have been recorded and the total number of fatalities under the daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – remains at 7,630.

The daily test positivity rate is 2.4%, up from 1.8%.

There are 154 people in hospital with Covid-19 and 21 people are in intensive care.

A total of 2,668,723 people have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and 590,174 have received their second dose.

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