Coronavirus in Scotland: 691 new Covid cases and 20 further deaths reported on Wednesday

Scotland has recorded the deaths of 20 Covid-19 patients and 691 new cases in the past 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon said.
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The First Minister told MSPs on Holyrood’s Covid-19 Committee that the number of people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the disease had now risen to 7,461.

The daily test positivity rate is 3.1%, Ms Sturgeon said.

She also told the committee that by 8.30am on Wednesday a total of 1,809,158 Scots had received their first dose of the vaccine, an increase of 19,781 on the previous day’s total.

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Other figures on the number of people in hospital will be available later in the day, the First Minister said.

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