SCOTLAND has recorded four new deaths and 281 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours.
The latest Scottish Goverment figures show out of the 22,183 Covid tests taken, 1.5% of them were positive for the virus.
The statistics also show that 2,643,524 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccine and 551,699 have received their second dose.
Yesterday, 168 people were in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19; of these, 20 were in intensive care.
Scotland had 2331 positive cases between March 31 and April 6, which was 42.7 cases per 100,000 population and a test positivity rate of 2%.
This is considerably lower than last week when Scotland had 3,400 positive cases, which was 63 cases per 100,000 population and a test positivity rate of 2.5%.
Tullibody North and Glenochil in Clackmannanshire had the most Covid cases in Scotland, with 27 people testing positive from a population of 5474.
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The council area with the most cases of Covid-19 is Glasgow City with 448 positive cases, which works out at 70.8 per 100,000 people.
However, the area with the most Covid cases per 100,000 population was Clackmannanshire with 166.9.
Only the Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Dumfries and the Western Isles in Scotland had zero cases of Covid-19 over this seven-day period.
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