iStockScotland has recorded 3598 new cases of Covid-19 and 31 deaths linked to the virus in the last 24 hours.
According to the latest figures released on Wednesday 49,597 tests had recorded results with 7.8% of those coming back positive.
It was also revealed that 1076 people are currently in hospital after recently testing positive for coronavirus and 82 of those are in intensive care.
The death toll under the daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – is now 8427.
Over 10,000 deaths have been registered in Scotland with Covid-19 mentioned on the death certificate since the start of the pandemic.
So far, 4,163,235 people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 3,815,907 have received their second dose.
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