One person has died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the Scottish Government has confirmed.
It brings the death toll since last March – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – to 9,634.
12,127 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
The latest figures for Scotland showed 2,067 new cases had also been identified overnight.
The total number of positive cases since the pandemic started stands at 735,750.
There are currently 586 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus with 45 being treated in intensive care.
To date 4,352,104 people have received their first vaccination with 3,958,162 having a second jab, while 1,859,735 have received a third dose or booster.
It comes as was revealed today that a Covid-19 vaccine developed in Scotland but abandoned by Boris Johnson could beat Omicron.
The UK Government is facing furious demands to reinstate a £1billion contract with Livingston-based Valneva to buy 100million doses of its drug.
Its jab – codenamed VLA2001 – works differently to the vaccine currently on the market as it targets entire virus cells rather than just individual spike proteins.
When Johnson visited Valneva’s Scottish lab in January, he hailed its potential to tackle dangerous variants – but his Health Secretary Sajid Javid inexplicably pulled the plug in September.
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