hospital for the killer bug with 35 in intensive care. Of the latest cases 419 were recorded in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 337 in Lanarkshire, 191 in Lothian and 95 in Ayrshire and Arran health boards.
The First Minister announced the latest figures during her daily Covid-19 briefing in Edinburgh. The rising figures come as new information emerges on the state of the UK's finances due to the pandemic.
Taxes will have to rise by more than £40 billion a year just to prevent Government borrowing spiralling out of control, a leading economic think tank has warned.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said borrowing this year was already set to hit levels not seen outside the two world wars due to the coronavirus pandemic.