Scotland records highest number of daily Covid deaths since March

Scotland has recorded 30 deaths and 4917 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

Official figures showed that as of Tuesday, there were 1079 people in hospital, with 91 patients in intensive care.

Of 57,383 new tests for Covid-19 that reported results, 9.2% of those were positive for the virus.

Around 4.1 million people have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, whilst around 3.7 million have had their second dose.

It comes after data from National Records of Scotland (NRS) showed that as of September 12 there have been 10,688 deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

Twelve of those who died in the week of September 6-12 were aged under 65, 13 were aged 65-74 and 51 were over 75.

Glasgow City Council and North Lanarkshire had eight deaths each in that period, with seven deaths in South Lanarkshire, six deaths in Dundee City, and five deaths in the City of Edinburgh.

Sixty-two people died in hospital, six in a care home and eight at home or in a place that was not an institution.

The statistics are published weekly and cover all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.

They differ from the lab-confirmed coronavirus deaths announced daily by the Scottish Government because the NRS figures include suspected or probable cases of Covid-19.