The Scottish Government has confirmed that five people have died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
The latest figures that 1,383 new cases had also been recorded overnight in Scotland.
It brings the death toll since last March – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – to 8,029.
There are currently 336 people in hospital confirmed to have the virus with 39 being treated in intensive care.
The total number of positive cases since the pandemic started stands at 360,983.
4,050,011 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,431,062 have received their second.
The latest figures come as Scotland was the only nation in the UK to see a fall in infection rates.
Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) data estimates suggesting around one in 190 people had Covid-19 in Scotland in the week to August 7, down from one in 120 in the previous week.
Separate figures show the rate of new cases of the virus is currently rising in all four nations, suggesting the sharp fall in Covid-19 cases that had been under way since mid-July has now come to an end.
Prevalence is highest in Northern Ireland where around one in 55 people are estimated to have had the virus last week - unchanged on the previous week and the highest level since late January.
This is followed by England, where the number is around one in 75 people, also unchanged from the previous week.
The ONS said that while the percentage of people testing positive for coronavirus in England "continued to be high", estimates suggest "an overall decreasing trend over the past two weeks".
In Wales, where around one in 220 people are estimated to have had the virus last week, the trend is described by the ONS as "uncertain". It is broadly unchanged on one in 230 in the previous week.
