Deputy First Minister John Swinney is set to give an update to Holyrood this afternoon as concerns arise amidst the coronavirus pandemic still having a hold on Scotland.
Mr Swinney, who is also Covid Recovery Minister for Scotland, will address Parliament at approximately 2:20pm today, and the main focus of his speech is likely to be the surge of positive Covid cases across the country recently.
This update is set to come as residents of Edinburgh were urged to get their children vaccinated, as data shows that over 70 kids were hospitalised with the virus most recently.
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Data collected by Edinburgh Live has shown that from April 19 until October 19, 2021, 75 children admitted to hospital had a first positive PCR test for Covid during their admission or in the 14 days preceding it.
NHS Lothian has seen the third highest number of total cases since the start of the pandemic in Scotland, with over 100,000 officially recorded.
Since then, the vaccine roll-out has seen hospital admissions and deaths slow and fall, however many young people in the area are still to receive both doses.
Overall in Scotland, there were 2,012 new cases of the virus reported yesterday, bringing the total to 664,654.
Ten more people have been hospitalised with Covid, with three leaving intensive care after recovering from illness.
So far this week, 32,282 new vaccinations were reported, which is a decrease from Sunday's figure of 34,010.
This was made up of 1,392 first doses, 2,094 second doses, and 28,796 third doses.
Scotland is currently administering an average of 32,220 new vaccinations per day. This is an increase this time last week, when 31,912 were being administered a day.
In total, 79.1 per cent of the entire Scottish population has had their first dose, 71.7 per cent have had both doses, and 18.1 per cent have had a third dose.
In the past 7 days, 3.5 per cent of Scotland has received a dose of the vaccine.
You can watch the Covid live briefing on Twitter, or on Scottish Parliament TV.
You can also keep up to date with the briefing over on our live blog, which will be updated as the Deputy First Minister addresses Scottish Parliament.
