Anas Sarwar called for the Holyrood parliament to be recalled to allow MSPs to discuss the response to the rising cases across the country.
The latest Scottish Government figures show that 2,726 tested positive for the deadly virus over the last 24 hours. It has also been revealed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that Scotland had six of Europe's top 10 covid hot spots last week.All of Scotland's local authorities are expected to move to Level 0 on July 19, with so-called 'Freedom Day' expected to be on August 9.
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland show, Jackie Baillie said: "The Scottish Government's response, in light of really spiralling numbers of covid positive cases, has in our view been far too slow, they've appeared to.