First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed the figures at today's FMQs
SCOTLAND has recorded 51 deaths from coronavirus and 958 positive cases in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed.
The death toll under this measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – is now 3848.
Speaking at the start of First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood, Sturgeon said the daily test positivity rate is 4.3%, down from 4.5% yesterday.
A total of 97,720 people have tested positive in Scotland, up from 96,762 the previous day.
There are 982 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus, a fall of nine in 24 hours.
Of these patients, 69 are in intensive care, up by one.
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