Another 542 Covid cases have been confirmed in Scotland as the nation prepares for lockdown easing measures to take effect from this Friday.
Figures have been published by the Scottish Government this afternoon as part of its national COVID-19 daily briefing.
In terms of Public Health Scotland's rolling seven-day infection rate per 100,000 population, Clackmannanshire has the highest infection rate in the country at 164.9 as of Tuesday, March 30.
The second-highest is West Lothian which has a rate of 143.6 while North Lanarkshire (140.0) has the third-highest rate. The rate for Scotland is 66.1 and the full list of all councils is just below...
Locally, South Ayrshire stood at 27.5 and in East Ayrshire it was 53.3 North Ayrshire's figure was 84.6.
7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...
0.0 Orkney Islands / Na h-Eileanan Siar
5.8 Argyll & Bute
8.7 Shetland Islands
10.2 Highland
11.3 Scottish Borders
17.5 Dumfries & Galloway
27.5 South Ayrshire
27.9 Aberdeenshire
30.8 Inverclyde
43.0 Angus
43.9 East Lothian
44.6 Aberdeen City
49.5 Fife
50.0 Perth & Kinross
51.0 Stirling
53.0 Midlothian
53.3 East Ayrshire
55.2 City of Edinburgh
70.2 South Lanarkshire
73.7 Dundee City
77.3 East Dunbartonshire
78.7 West Dunbartonshire
81.4 Moray
81.6 East Renfrewshire
84.6 North Ayrshire
91.1 Glasgow City
93.2 Falkirk
103.3 Renfrewshire
140.0 North Lanarkshire
143.6 West Lothian
164.9 Clackmannanshire
Tragically, a further six deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, including one patient from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran region, which means 7,602 people have passed away since March 2020.
However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 9,958 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, March 28 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.
Across the UK, the figure is 126,670 as of last night.
The number of positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has increased by 41 to 16,524.
Of the new cases, 19 were from North Ayrshire; 18 attributed to East Ayrshire and four in South 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 28 which is down two from yesterday. Nationally, there are 237 Covid patients being treated in hospital.
A total of 218,432 positive tests have been recorded since the end of February from 1.821 million tests carried out.
Across Scotland, as of 8.30am this morning, a total of 2,463,069 people had received the first dose of their Covid vaccine with 354,756 having received their second dose.
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