A further 639 people have been diagnosed with Covid in Scotland as the Scottish Government mulls over lockdown easing plans for the coming weeks.
Data has been published this afternoon by the Scottish Government 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, Stirling has the highest infection rate in the country at 144.4 as of Friday, March 12.
The second-highest is Glasgow City which has a rate of 125.7 while North Lanarkshire (117.5) has the third-highest rate. The rate for Scotland is 69.0 and the full list of all councils is just below.
Looking at the three Ayrshire regions, North Ayrshire stood at 80.9. In East Ayrshire, it was 66.4 while it was 82.6 in South Ayrshire.
South Ayrshire's figure has rocketed since the beginning of the week when the region was sitting at just 19.5.
7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...
0.0 Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands
5.8 Argyll & Bute
17.3 Scottish Borders
19.3 Inverclyde
20.8 Dumfries & Galloway
29.2 Moray
29.5 Aberdeenshire
36.9 Highland
38.7 Angus
40.7 Aberdeen City
41.1 Midlothian
42.1 Perth & Kinross
43.9 West Dunbartonshire
45.1 City of Edinburgh
47.9 East Dunbartonshire
54.2 East Lothian
56.1 Na h-Eileanan Siar
58.9 Fife
63.6 Dundee City
66.4 East Ayrshire
76.7 South Lanarkshire
80.9 North Ayrshire
82.6 South Ayrshire
97.8 West Lothian
101.1 Renfrewshire
102.8 Clackmannanshire
103.2 Falkirk
107.8 East Renfrewshire
117.5 North Lanarkshire
125.7 Glasgow City
144.4 Stirling
Tragically, there have been another eight deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, although none were from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board area, which means 7,508 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 125,343 as of last night.
The number of positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has risen by 55 to 15,855.
Of the new cases, 29 were from North Ayrshire; 21 attributed to South Ayrshire and five 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 48 which is down five on yesterday.
A total of 209,068 positive tests have been recorded since the end of February from 1.739 million tests carried out.
Across Scotland, as of 8.30am this morning, a total of 1,867,123 people had received the first dose of their Covid vaccine with 156,250 having received their second dose.
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