The Scottish Government has confirmed 31 people have died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
The death toll since March 2020 – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – is now 10,341.
The latest figures for Scotland revealed 8,210 new cases had also been identified overnight.
There are currently 1,083 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus with 29 being treated in intensive care.
So far 4,417,967 people have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination, 4,131,914 given a second dose and 3,307,067 have received a third dose or booster.
It comes as new figures revealed Covid is now no more deadly than the flu in the UK.
The latest Office for National Statistics figures say more than 180,000 people have now died in the UK with Covid on their death certificate.
Statistics show the rate of people dying with coronavirus has now dropped to flu levels or below, according to a report by the Telegraph.
In May 2020 the Case Fatality Rate (CRF) for Covid was 15 per cent - one in six people who tested positive for the virus went on to die.
By the end of December last year that number had dropped to 0.3 per cent.
The latest CRF for Covid for the week up to January 26 was 0.14%. The death rate for flu is between 0.1 and 0.2%.
The Telegraph reports: "It is likely now, that even with millions of Covid cases in December and January, excess winter mortality this year will not even approach a bad flu year - let alone the levels we have seen in previous waves."
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