A further 677 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Scotland in the last 24 hours amid warnings of a third wave of the disease.
Data has been published this afternoon by the Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland as part of the national COVID-19 daily briefing.
Nationally, 114 people are in hospital which is up eight from yesterday. There are currently 10 people with the illness being treated in ICU.
The figures were published just hours after Professor Jason Leitch, the national clinical director, said the nation was at the 'foothills of a third wave.'
However, he's hopeful a new wave wouldn't be so severe as the previous ones due to the vaccination programme.
According to Public Health Scotland's rolling seven-day infection rate per 100,000 population, East Renfrewshire has the highest infection rate in the country – at 165.4 as of Tuesday, June 1.
The second-highest is Renfrewshire which has a rate of 159.7 while Glasgow City (130.0) has the third-highest rate.
Locally, South Ayrshire's infection rate has shot up to 114.6 from 92.4 yesterday. North Ayrshire's infection rate stands at 61.6 with East Ayrshire's at 65.6.
Currently, 21 of Scotland's 32 council regions have an infection rate below the national average of 66.4
7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...
0.0 Orkney Islands / Shetland Islands / Na h-Eileanan Siar
4.3 Scottish Borders
6.7 Dumfries & Galloway
8.0 Aberdeenshire
9.4 Moray
14.0 Argyll & Bute
15.7 Aberdeen City
27.1 East Lothian
30.4 West Dunbartonshire
33.1 Highland
33.4 Inverclyde
35.0 West Lothian
36.1 Angus
39.5 Perth & Kinross
43.5 Falkirk
44.2 Fife
58.2 Clackmannanshire
61.6 North Ayrshire
65.6 East Ayrshire
67.9 Stirling
71.8 East Dunbartonshire
78.0 South Lanarkshire
82.3 North Lanarkshire
86.5 Midlothian
89.3 City of Edinburgh
99.8 Dundee City
114.6 South Ayrshire
130.0 Glasgow City
159.7 Renfrewshire
165.4 East Renfrewshire
One new death has been announced in the last 24 hours which means 7,670 people have passed away since March 2020.
However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 10,122 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to Sunday, May 30.
The number of newly-reported positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has increased by 70 to 17,636.
Of the new cases, 26 were from South Ayrshire and 24 were attributed to North Ayrshire. There were 19 new cases in East Ayrshire.
There are 13 patients being treated for the disease in Ayrshire hospitals and fewer than five in ICUs.
A total of 3,286,261 people have received the first dose of a Covid vaccine and 2,106,177 have received their second dose.
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