The latest figures from the Scottish Government has shown there were 697new cases of coronavirus reported in the last 24 hours.
145 of the cases were in the NHS Lothian region - this is the second highest tally among the health boards across the country.
The new positive cases represented 12.8 per cent of all those who were newly tested.
No new deaths were announced, however, the First Minister warned this is possibly due to a weekend lag.
218 people are in hospital across the country, up 8 on Sunday's figure. 22 people are critically ill in intensive care.
On Saturday, the UK reported its highest ever daily increase as the country had ever recorded over 10,000 new cases.
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It comes as Scotland's national clinical director seemingly confirmed the government were looking to implement a circuit-breaker lockdown over the October holidays.
Jason Leitch told the BBC that a "short, sharp" circuit-breaker could buy Scotland time in the pandemic and be effective in reducing coronavirus infection rates by getting the R number down.
He said: "Not full lockdown like 23 March - so you might make some choices in there about schools or about further education - but fundamentally a short, sharp shock to the R number.
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