ANOTHER two people have died in Scotland after contracting Covid-19, the Government has announced.

A further 1030 cases were recorded in the previous 24 hours, with a positivity rate of 4.1%. That's just below yesterday's figure of 1100 cases, which also had a positivity rate of 4.1%.

However, Public Health Scotland (PHS) has warned the figures could be lower than they should due to laboratory delays.

The deaths, recorded among people who first tested positive in the previous 28 days, bring the total under that measurement to 7681.

A total of 3,477,378 people have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccination and 2,402,700 have received their second.

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On the laboratory delays, PHS said: “PHS are aware of an ongoing delay in the laboratory processing of specimens in the Glasgow Lighthouse lab, similar to that which was reported yesterday.

“This delay may lead to a smaller number of tests and cases reported during the previous 48 hours as compared to the figures reported prior to that period.”

The latest figures come amid discussions between governments around the UK about the "constrained" supply of the Pfizer vaccine which is expected in the coming weeks.

Following a meeting of the British-Irish Council on Friday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "We are co-operating across the four nations in terms of vaccine supply.

"We know the Delta variant is allowing this virus to transmit more quickly and therefore we have to do everything possible to make sure that vaccination happens at a pace that can keep it under control.

"Across all four of the nations, vaccination is going extremely well, but we do know that we have, as we have at points in the past, periods coming up where some vaccine supply will be more constrained, and over the next few weeks that looks as if it will be Pfizer."