No coronavirus deaths have been recorded in Scotland over the last 24 hours.
The Scottish Government also announced that 1504 new cases of COVID-19 were reported overnight.
Sturgeon said the lower number of cases are due to a backlog of figures coming through.
264 people are in hospital being treated for the deadly virus while 7 people remain in intensive care.
The news came on the day a UK cabinet Minister rejected Nicola Sturgeon’s call for an extension of the Brexit transition period while the latest coronavirus crisis is dealt with.
The First Minister tweeted: “It’s now imperative that PM seeks an agreement to extend the Brexit transition period.
“The new Covid strain - and the various implications of it - means we face a profoundly serious situation, it demands our 100per cent attention.
“It would be unconscionable to compound it with Brexit.”
She was responding to Boris Johnson’s decision to convene a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee this morning amid a growing sense of chaos over the French ban on UK freight and passengers.
Reacting to her plea, UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said there would “absolutely not” be an extension to remaining within EU rules beyond December 31.
He told BBC Breakfast: “I think the one thing which could actually add fuel to the fire would be ending something that everyone’s known is ending for a very long time, which is the end of the transition period which completes on the 31st December, so absolutely not, no.”
