The Scottish Government has announced eight covid deaths in Scotland in the past 24 hours.
There have been 5,858 cases recorded across in the country in the same time frame, bringing the total numbers since the pandemic began to 407,660.
The death toll under the daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - has risen to 8,103.
A total of 494 people are in hospital and 49 patients are currently receiving treatment in intensive care.
So far, 4,098,078 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,640,865 have received their second.
It comes after a study suggested people infected with the Delta variant of Covid-19 carry twice the risk of needing to be treated in hospital than those with the Alpha strain.
Researchers looked at more than 43,000 cases in England between March and May with their findings published in medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Nearly three-quarters of coronavirus cases in the study were in people who were unvaccinated, with 1.8% coming in those who had received both inoculations.
The study said around one in 50 patients were admitted to hospital within two weeks of their first positive test, or 2.3% of Delta cases and 2.2% of those with the Alpha variant, first identified in Kent.
Researchers then adjusted these figures to take into account other factors to determine the risk of being admitted to hospital was more than doubled with the Delta variant compared with the Alpha variant.
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