A top-level meeting is taking place today to discuss another big rise in coronavirus in the Greater Glasgow area.
It could mean even tougher actions being imposed on the area to stem the rise.
Nicola Sturgeon said that the National Incident Management team was meeting to look at the growing number of positive test results.
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She revealed the latest daily cases was 334 in the health board area.
It is a rise of 90 in 24 hours or a 34% increase in just a day.
Ms Sturgeon said the team would also look at Lanarkshire where another 102 cases was reported.
The latest figures showed anther four people had died.
There were 175 people in hospital and 19 in intensive care.
The total number of cases in Scotland over the last 24 hours was 775. It takes the number of cases since the pandemic hit to more than 30,000.
The total positive cases now is 30,687.
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