Another 2,823 Covid cases have been diagnosed in Scotland – with the nation's virus death toll also increasing.Data has been published by the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland (PHS) this afternoon as part of the national Covid-19 daily briefing.Nationally, there are 896 patients being treated in hospital which is down 39 from yesterday.
There are currently 63 people with the disease being treated in ICUs. The number of newly-reported positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has rose by 278 to 46,415.Of the new cases, 108 were from East Ayrshire, 105 in North Ayrshire and 65 attributed to South Ayrshire.A total of 653,975 positive tests have now been recorded from 3.454 million tests carried out since the