Two coronavirus deaths and 215 new cases in past 24 hours

Scotland has recorded two coronavirus deaths and 215 new cases in the past 24 hours, the latest Scottish Government figures show.

It brings the death toll under this daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – to 7664.

However Public Health Scotland have been made aware of a potential data issue impacting the flow of tests from testing sites.

As a result, statistics are lower than expected and missing data will be reported on Saturday.

A total of 228,908 people have tested positive for the virus and the daily test positivity rate is 1.3%, up from 1.2% the previous day.

A total of 64 people were in hospital on Wednesday with recently confirmed Covid-19, with three patients in intensive care.

So far, 2,985,557 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 1,575,765 have received their second dose.

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