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Coronavirus in Scotland LIVE:
"In fact, just in the last 2 days or so, we may have started to see some signs that case numbers are stabilising. Test positivity has also remained fairly stable over the past few days, at around 4%."
"In Glasgow, the 7 day average of new cases has increased since Friday – from 112 new cases per 100,000, to 137. However, it's important to recognise that the extensive public health efforts that are underway in Glasgow will take time to work."
"In East Renfrewshire, case numbers may in fact have fallen very slightly. However, it is too early to be certain and it remains crucial residents continue to come forward for testing and vaccination - and continue to exercise care and caution."
Scotland has recorded two coronavirus patient deaths and 318 new cases in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
It means the death toll under this daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – is 7,666.
The First Minister told a Scottish Government coronavirus briefing the daily test positivity rate was 2%, down from 2.8% the previous day.
She said 97 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, up three on the previous day. Of these, six were in intensive care, up one.
More than five million vaccine doses have now been administered in Scotland, with 3,138,366 first doses and 1,881,214 second doses.