covid deaths in Scotland in the past 24 hours. There have been 5,858 cases recorded across in the country in the same time frame, bringing the total numbers since the pandemic began to 407,660.
The death toll under the daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - has risen to 8,103.
A total of 494 people are in hospital and 49 patients are currently receiving treatment in intensive care. So far, 4,098,078 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,640,865 have received their second.
It comes after a study suggested people infected with the Delta variant of Covid-19 carry twice the risk of needing to be treated in hospital than those with the Alpha strain.