The latest data showing how Covid is continuing to impact Scotland has been published today with the nation's death toll sadly rising once again.
Figures have been produced this afternoon by the Scottish Government as part of its national COVID-19 daily briefing with 591 new cases confirmed.
In terms of Public Health Scotland's rolling seven-day infection rate per 100,000 population, Stirling has the new highest infection rate in the country at 136.9 as of Wednesday, March 10.
The second-highest is Clackmannanshire which has a rate of 133.9 with Glasgow City (114.8) moving up to become third-highest. The rate for Scotland is 64.5 and the full list of all councils is just below.
For the three Ayrshire regions, North Ayrshire stood at 80.9. In East Ayrshire, it was 64.7 while it was 47.1 in South Ayrshire.
The figure in South Ayrshire represents a setback since the start of the week as the area had been making excellent progress towards an indicative Tier 1 status.
7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...
0.0 Orkney Islands
4.4 Shetland Islands
5.8 Argyll & Bute
16.1 Dumfries & Galloway
20.6 Inverclyde
20.8 Scottish Borders
27.2 Aberdeenshire
30.4 West Dunbartonshire
31.3 Moray
35.9 Aberdeen City
36.8 East Dunbartonshire
40.3 Highland
40.4 City of Edinburgh
42.2 Angus
42.8 Perth & Kinross
45.4 Midlothian
47.1 South Ayrshire
49.5 Fife
50.4 East Lothian
64.7 East Ayrshire
65.6 Dundee City
67.4 Na h-Eileanan Siar
72.0 Renfrewshire
73.6 South Lanarkshire
80.9 North Ayrshire
99.4 East Renfrewshire
104.3 West Lothian
111.9 Falkirk
112.5 North Lanarkshire
114.8 Glasgow City
133.9 Clackmannanshire
136.9 Stirling
There have been another 22 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, including two people from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board area, which means 7,483 people have passed away since March 2020.
However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 9,725 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, March 7 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.
Across the UK, the figure is 124,987 as of last night.
The number of positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has risen by 51 to 15,758.
Of the new cases, 22 were from North Ayrshire; 18 attributed to South Ayrshire and 11 in East Ayrshire.
There are fewer than five within the health board's region, in intensive care with confirmed COVID-19 which remains the same as yesterday.
In addition, the number of people in hospital with confirmed coronavirus at midnight was 57 which is down nine on yesterday.
A total of 207,747 positive tests have been recorded since the end of February from 1.730 million tests carried out.
Across Scotland, as of 8.30am this morning, a total of 1,825,800 people had received the first dose of their Covid vaccine with 141,433 having received their second dose.
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