A further 273 people in Scotland have been diagnosed with Covid in the last 24 hours.
Data has been published this afternoon by the Scottish Government as part of its national COVID-19 daily briefing.
According to Public Health Scotland's rolling seven-day infection rate per 100,000 population, Clackmannanshire has the highest infection rate in the country – at 62.1 as of Tuesday, April 20.
The second-highest is Glasgow City which has a rate of 50.9 while North Lanarkshire (50.4) has the third-highest rate. The rate for Scotland is 27.8 and the full list of all councils is just below...
Locally, South Ayrshire stood at 11.5 and in North Ayrshire it was 24.5. East Ayrshire's figure was 30.3.
7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...
0.0 Orkney Islands / Shetland Islands / Na h-Eileanan Siar
2.0 Dumfries & Galloway
2.6 Scottish Borders
3.5 Argyll & Bute
4.3 Midlothian
5.6 East Lothian
11.2 Angus
11.5 South Ayrshire
12.7 Stirling
13.5 West Dunbartonshire
15.3 Highland
15.4 Inverclyde
16.1 Aberdeenshire
21.1 City of Edinburgh
24.5 Aberdeen City / North Ayrshire
24.9 East Dunbartonshire
26.7 Falkirk
27.0 Fife
27.5 Dundee City
28.3 Perth & Kinross
30.0 West Lothian
30.3 East Ayrshire
32.9 Renfrewshire
33.4 Moray
39.8 East Renfrewshire
46.8 South Lanarkshire
50.4 North Lanarkshire
50.9 Glasgow City
62.1 Clackmannanshire
There has been one further death in the last 24 hours, from the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde health board region, which means 7,643 people have passed away since March 2020 after two deaths were 'de-notified' following further investigation, Public Health Scotland revealed.
However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 10,055 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, April 18 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.
Across the UK, the figure is 127,307 as of last night.
The number of newly-reported positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has increased by 25 to 16,851.
Of the new cases, 12 were from East Ayrshire, nine were attributed to South Ayrshire and four are in North Ayrshire.
There were zero new cases recorded in the Scottish Borders, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Orkney and Shetland Islands.
There are fewer than five people within the NHS Ayrshire & Arran health board region in intensive care with confirmed COVID-19 which is the same figure as yesterday.
In addition, the number of people in Ayrshire's hospitals with confirmed coronavirus at midnight was seven which is the same as yesterday. Nationally, there are 107 Covid patients being treated in hospital, up one from yesterday.
A total of 224,365 positive tests have been recorded since the end of February from 1.889 million tests carried out.
Across Scotland, as of 8.30am this morning, a total of 2,752,575 people had received the first dose of their Covid vaccine with 847,655 having received their second dose.
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