Three Edinburgh neighbourhoods have 'suppressed' coronavirus, according to new figures.
New Town West, Leith (Albert Street) and Balgreen and Roseburn are the only three areas to record fewer than three new cases over the past seven days.
On the other side of the spectrum, 12 neighbourhoods recorded more than 400 cases per 100,000 of the population, putting them in the highest category - as so-called 'Covid hotspots'.
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These areas are: Queensferry West, Balerno and Bonnington Village, Trinity East and the Dudleys, Clermiston and Drumbrae, Barnton, Cammo and Cramond South, Comely Bank, Currie West, Greenbank and The Braids, Corstorphine North, Jewel, Brunstane and Newcraighall, Craiglockhart and Trinity.
Across Scotland, the country recorded 2,581 new cases of Covid overnight.
Of 28,984 new tests for coronavirus, 9.5 per cent of those were positive.
There was sadly 21 new reported deaths of those who tested positive and 47 people remain in intensive care.
841 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed Covid.
It comes as a group representing care homes warned they must not be "lined up as a scapegoat" in the forthcoming national inquiry into the pandemic.
Independent Care Homes Scotland (ICHS), representing 13 operators and 10,000 staff across 155 homes, have said it is vital the sector is given a "meaningful and prominent voice" in the inquiry.
They say the decision by Government to "empty hospital patients into care homes without any testing" early in the pandemic must be addressed in the probe.
ICHS founding member and Renaissance Care chairman, Robert Kilgour, said: "Given that the Scottish care sector was one of those hardest hit by the pandemic, it would counterproductive if the voices of patients, staff and management were restricted to only a few participants.
"It is of utmost importance that the care sector is not lined up as a scapegoat for things that went wrong during the Covid outbreak in Scotland.
"It is imperative that the inquiry takes substantial evidence from those on the front line.
"Only then will we be able to ensure it fulfils its remit of establishing any lessons to be learned from what has happened, for the sake of future and current residents, as well as those who have made their careers in the sector."
