Covid Scotland: 3,893 new cases of coronavirus

There were 3,893 new cases of COVID-19 reported, down from 7,113 yesterday.

Among the 29,281 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results, 14.1% of these were positive.

There were 551 people in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19, 52 of which were in intensive care.

Pop-up covid vaccination centres are helping to get more people vaccinated.

4,103,687 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,668,041 have received their second dose.

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