Covid Scotland: Omicron spreads quickly as 110 new cases detected in 24 hours
Figures published by the Scottish Government on Tuesday show that there were 3,117 new cases of Covid-19 recorded in the past 24 hours and six deaths.
The Covid-19 death toll in Scotland under the daily measure, of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days, is 9,725.
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Hide AdThe daily test positivity rate was 11.3%, down from 11.8% the day before.
There were 541 people in hospital on Monday with recently confirmed Covid-19, down 20, with 38 in intensive care, down one.
So far 4,363,074 people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination, 3,978,208 have received their second dose, and 2,200,172 have received a third dose or booster.
Officials said that due to a refresh of data on Monday, Public Health Scotland have now been able to identify a number of duplicates in the data which were previously reported as separate vaccination events and this has resulted in a drop in reported dose one vaccinations.