A further 466 new Covid cases have been confirmed in Scotland within the last 24 hours.
The Scottish Government has produced figures this afternoon 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, North Ayrshire stood at 86.1 as of Monday, March 8. In East Ayrshire, it was 55.7 while it was 19.5 in South Ayrshire.
Clackmannanshire continues to have the highest infection rate in Scotland at 145.5. The second-highest is Falkirk which has a rate of 125.6 with Stirling (122.1) third-highest. The rate for Scotland is 63.6 and the full list of all councils is just below.
7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...
0.0 Orkney Islands
4.4 Shetland Islands
10.5 Argyll & Bute
14.8 Dumfries & Galloway
19.5 South Ayrshire
21.9 Inverclyde
22.5 Scottish Borders
22.6 Aberdeenshire
32.8 Aberdeen City
33.4 Moray
36.5 Highland
38.2 Perth & Kinross
39.6 East Dunbartonshire
40.5 West Dunbartonshire
42.1 City of Edinburgh
42.6 Fife
49.1 Angus
55.1 East Lothian
55.7 East Ayrshire
60.6 Midlothian
65.9 Renfrewshire
67.0 Dundee City
71.1 Na h-Eileanan Siar
78.6 South Lanarkshire
86.1 North Ayrshire
93.2 East Renfrewshire
104.9 West Lothian
107.8 North Lanarkshire
113.2 Glasgow City
122.1 Stirling
125.6 Falkirk
145.5 Clackmannanshire
There have been another 19 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, including three people from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board area, which means 7,441 people have passed away since March 2020.
However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 9,580 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, February 28 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.
Across the UK, the figure is 124,566 as of last night.
The number of positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has risen by 26 to 15,624.
There are fewer than five within the health board's region, in intensive care with confirmed COVID-19 which is the same as yesterday.
In addition, the number of people in hospital with confirmed coronavirus at midnight was 69 which is down three on yesterday.
A total of 206,465 positive tests have been recorded since the end of February from 1.719 million tests carried out.
Across Scotland, as of 8.30am this morning, a total of 1,789,377 people had received the first dose of their Covid vaccine with 123,686 having received their second dose.
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