SCOTLAND has recorded over 3,800 new Covid cases and two reported deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the latest figures.

The Scottish Government confirmed that 3,833 people have reported positive test results for Covid-19 since Saturday.

This is a decrease from yesterday's figure of 6,116 new cases.

A further 45,985 new tests for Covid-19 were conducted that reported results. Of these 9.1% were positive, a slight increase from yesterday's positivity rate of 9.0%.

In the last 24 hours, two deaths of someone who tested positive for Covid-19 within the previous 28 days were registered.

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There were 1,074 people in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed Covid-19, with 100 patients in intensive care.

So far, Scottish vaccination figures stand at 4,155,048 people having received the first dose of a covid vaccination and 3,806,980 people having received the second dose.

The Scottish Government notes that there may be some variability in the number of new cases and tests reported in the last 24 hours due to a backlog of data being processed following technical issues affecting reporting on September 16.