Scotland has recorded 10 coronavirus-linked deaths and 1,498 new cases in the past 24 hours, according to the latest figures.
More than 150 new recorded covid-19 infection were registered in Edinburgh during the same time period, data from Public Health Scotland has revealed.
It means the death toll under the daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - is now 8,013.
The daily test positivity rate is now at five per cent, down from almost eight per cent the previous day.
It comes in the first week of Scotland fully relaxing almost all restrictions imposed since the start of the pandemic, including curfews on hospitality.
Hundreds of revellers poured into nightclubs in the early hours of Monday morning after they were given permission to reopen for the first time in more than a year.
A total of 356 people were in hospital on Tuesday with recently confirmed covid-19, up four in 24 hours, with 42 patients in intensive care, up two.
New cases in Midlothian dropped to just 19, while East Lothian registered 39 and West Lothian 41.
So far, 4,034,420 people have received the first dose of a covid-19 vaccination and 3,375,524 have received their second dose.
