Coronavirus in Scotland: Edinburgh remains in level three

She announced that Edinburgh would remain in level three, despite calls to lower it to level two.

This comes after 845 new positive cases were reported across all of Scotland in the last 24 hours.

Edinburgh is to remain in level three.

996 patients are in hospital and 45 patients are in intensive care.

There have been 24 registered deaths in the past 24 hours of people who had tested positive for coronavirus.

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