More than half of the population of Scotland have now been vaccinated against Covid-19, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

She also warned against thinking it was only the Euro football that was responsible for a rise in cases.

The First Minister said that vaccination remained the way out of the pandemic and urged people to get jagged  in the coming month either at an appointment sent to them or at one of the drop-in or mobile units being set up.

Giving the latest case number s and vaccination update she said: “Today’s vaccine numbers take us across miles stone. More than 50% of the population is fully vaccinated.”

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On vaccinations Sturgeon said 3,831,770 have now had a first dose, including 15,519 yesterday.

Another 14,622 people had the second dose yesterday, taking the total to 2,737,347.

The First Minister revealed there were 3823 new positive cases, which was 10.8% of all tests carried out. It means the total cases since the pandemic began is now 289,279

There were 285 people in hospital up 10 on the previous day and  19 in intensive care, up 3.

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Three more deaths were reported taking the total to 7726.

She also said that the increase in positive cases in the last two weeks is not purely down to the Euro 2021 football.

Thousands of cases have been linked wither to attendance at a match at Hampden, fans travelling to London for the Scotland England match or watching with groups either at home or in pubs.

However, she said the overall number of new cases means that is not the only reason for the rise.

She said: “People were asked not to go to London if they didn’t have a ticket for the match.

Literally after all that’s happened, I agonise if we should have done more. We really think very deeply about this.

“The football association, we think it is there we think we can see it in the peak at the start of last week

“But there’s a danger that if everybody thinks this is just about the football it doesn’t apply to you.

“Two thousand had an association with football but we had 30,000 cases over that period. So, it is not  entirely that, we have community transmission.

“The football is not finished. If you’re watching England tomorrow particularly having people in house stick to the limits.”