ANOTHER 33 people have died in Scotland after contracting Covid-19, the latest daily figures show.
A further 2823 new cases have also been recorded, with a positivity rate of 7.2%.
The deaths, among people who tested positive in the previous 28 days, bring the total under that measure to 9242.
A total of 896 people were in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, a decrease of 39 on the previous day.
Of those people, 63 were in intensive care, no change.
Public Health Scotland noted that vaccination data for today is "not yet available" and it will be updated as soon as possible.
It means that currently the total number of people who have received a first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine is 4,321,770 and the number of people who have received a second dose is 3,911,823.
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