Coronavirus in Scotland: No Covid-19 deaths as vaccinations edge closer to 3,000,000

Scotland has recorded 168 new cases of coronavirus but no deaths in the past 24 hours.

The death toll under this daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – remains at 7,661.

However, the Scottish Government noted that registry offices are generally closed at weekends.

The daily test positivity rate was 1.6 per cent, up from 1.5 per cent the previous day, according to figures released by the Scottish Government on Monday.

There were 72 people in hospital on Sunday with recently confirmed Covid-19, six of them in intensive care.

So far 2,909,156 people have received the first dose of a Covid vaccination and 1,485,296 have received their second dose.

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