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Craig Williams

Scotland records 27 new Covid-linked deaths and 6,116 cases in past 24 hours

A total of 27 new coronavirus-linked deaths have been recorded in Scotland, according to the latest Government figures.

The data also shows 6,116 people tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours.

The daily positivity rate is currently 9.0% - 0.9% down on the previous day.

A total of 99 people were in intensive care on Friday with recently confirmed Covid-19, up 12 from the day before, and 1,052 Covid patients were in hospital overall, 15 more than the previous day.

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The Scottish Government said Saturday's case numbers may be higher than normal due to a backlog of data being processed following technical issues at Public Health Scotland on Thursday.

So far, 4,151,735 people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination and 3,802,183 have had their second.

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