Covid Scotland: Largest daily number of coronavirus cases since the start of July as over 3,000 reported

Scotland has recorded the fifth highest daily total of positive Covid cases as over 3,000 reported.

3,367 new cases of coronavirus has been reported in the last 24 hours from Scotland.

This is 9% of the 39,660 tests that reported results.

There are 317 people in hospital recently confirmed with Covid, and 33 people in intensive care.

Seven people have died after testing positive.

4,068,806 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,512,673 have received their second dose.

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