ANOTHER 222 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
The new cases represent 6.9% of people newly tested and bring the total to 27,798.
The First Minister says the daily figures is unexpectedly low, and likely to be the result “weekend effect”.
She added: “Just to be sure I've asked Public Health Scotland to check that there are no other issues that may have impacted on the reporting of the figure today."
Some 122 people are in hospital with confirmed coronavirus, 17 more than the day previously.
Of those, 16 are in intensive care, an increase of four.
According to provisional information, 54 of the new cases were in Lothian, 53 in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and 37 in Lanarkshire. The remaining 78 are across nine other health boards.
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