SCOTLAND has recorded three deaths of coronavirus patients and 204 positive tests in the past 24 hours, according to the latest daily figures.
It brings the death toll under this measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – to 7640.
Scottish Government figures show 223,261 people have tested positive since the start of the outbreak, up from 222,897 the previous day.
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The daily test positivity rate is 1.4%, up from 1.2% on Thursday’s figure.
In Scotland there are 109 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus, down six in 24 hours, and of these 18 patients are in intensive care, up two.
A total of 2,722,084 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 688,761 have received their second dose.
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