An SNP MP has laid part of the blame for the rise in coronavirus cases in Scotland on Boris Johnson's Tory government.
David Linden, MP for Glasgow East, said the lack of border controls by the UK Government allowed the Delta variant, which originated in India, to spread across parts of the country.
Low levels of natural immunity in parts of Scotland is also to blame for the number of cases, according to Linden.
Scotland has seen a high number of cases over the last couple of weeks. Yesterday a total of 2,372 Scots tested positive for the deadly virus that has killed more than 7,700 people since March 2020.
It has also been revealed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that Scotland had six of Europe's top 10 covid hot spots last week.
Speaking on the BBC's Politics Live programme Linden urged Scots to take up the chance to use one of the walk-in vaccine centres across the country.
The Scottish Government is ramping up the vaccine programme in a bid to allow the entire country to move down to Level 0 on July 19.
Linden said: "Part of the problem we've had is the Delta variant which we know is 40 per cent more transmissible has been seeded in the my own city of Glasgow, the most densely populated city in the country.
"One of the reasons why we're on this league table perhaps, for the first time, is we don't have those levels of natural immunity that perhaps other people in the UK.
"We want to try and get Scotland down from that league table as quickly as possible so that's why we're asking people in this month of July to go on get jagged and to make sure as well that you're doing your twice weekly lateral flow tests.
What do you think? Join the conversation in our comments section.
"There is an awful lot of work that's going on to try and reduce that virus.
"There's no doubt that the Delta variant, that I have major problems about how the UK Government has handled border control in the UK, but there's no doubt that that Delta variant being seeded in some of these mostly densely populated cities like Dundee and Glasgow has caused a number of problems."
To sign up to the Daily Record Politics newsletter, click here.
