Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterA worrying rise of 2,045 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Scotland in the last 24 hours.Data has been produced by the Scottish Government as part of its national COVID-19 daily briefing.Meanwhile, Scotland's death toll from the virus has tragically increased by 43 and now stands at 4,510.
Five of the people who died in the last 24 hours were from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran region.However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 6,298 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, December 20 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.The number of positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran.