Six Covid deaths and 3216 cases recorded in last 24 hours

The daily test positivity rate is 9.9%, according to the latest Scottish Government figures.

Six Covid deaths and 3216 cases recorded in last 24 hours Getty Images

Scotland has recorded more than 3200 new coronavirus cases and six further deaths in the past 24 hours, latest figures show.

It brings the death toll under this daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – to 7750.

The daily test positivity rate was 9.9%, up from 8% the previous day.

The figures published by the Scottish Government on Friday show there have been 3216 new Covid cases, up from 2802 the day before.

There were 427 people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19 on Thursday, up 26 on the day before, with 39 in intensive care, an increase of one.

So far 3,911,189 people have received the first dose of a Covid vaccine and 2,843,938 have had their second.

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