Coronavirus: Six deaths and 285 new cases in last 24 hours

A total of 2,625,577 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination in Scotland.

Coronavirus: Six deaths and 285 new cases in last 24 hours Pixabay

Six new coronavirus deaths have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.

Official figures also show that there were 285 new cases of Covid-19 in the country.

More than 10,000 deaths have been registered in Scotland since the start of the pandemic last year.

And, as of Friday, 2,625,577 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and over half a million have received their second dose.

On Thursday 168 were in hospital with 20 of those being in intensive care.

From 20,720 new tests that reported results – 1.6% of these were positive.

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