People will be able to venture outside their council area from Friday after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced an easing of travel restrictions.
In a briefing today, Ms Sturgeon also confirmed that mainland Scotland would move to Tier 3 restrictions from Monday, April 26.
It's hoped the nation will then be moved into Tier 2 by Monday, May 17, with a number of local authority areas already qualifying for that status based solely on the seven-day infection rate per 100,000 population measurement.
Six people from six households can also meet outdoors from Friday. Under-12s do not count towards the limit while socialising in homes is still not allowed.
Another 221 Covid cases have been registered in the last 24 hours. Data has been produced 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 still has the highest infection rate in the country – at 91.2 as of Monday, April 12 – but it is consistently falling.
The second-highest is North Lanarkshire which has a rate of 64.2 while Glasgow City (58.4) has the third-highest rate. The rate for Scotland is 35.5 and the full list of all councils is just below...
Locally, South Ayrshire stood at 16.9 and in North Ayrshire it was 20.8. East Ayrshire's figure was 40.2.
7-day infection rate per 100,000 population for each council area...
0.0 Orkney Islands / Na h-Eileanan Siar
2.6 Scottish Borders
2.7 Dumfries & Galloway
5.8 Argyll & Bute
9.7 Midlothian
11.9 Highland
13.1 Shetland Islands
13.8 Angus
16.9 South Ayrshire
18.8 Aberdeenshire
19.6 East Lothian
20.6 Inverclyde
20.8 North Ayrshire
21.1 City of Edinburgh
21.7 Perth & Kinross
27.6 East Dunbartonshire
28.1 West Dunbartonshire
30.6 Aberdeen City
38.1 South Lanarkshire
39.8 East Renfrewshire
40.2 East Ayrshire
43.8 Moray
44.6 Stirling
44.9 Dundee City
47.9 Fife
51.0 Falkirk
56.3 West Lothian
57.5 Renfrewshire
58.4 Glasgow City
64.2 North Lanarkshire
91.2 Clackmannanshire
Tragically, a further three deaths have been recorded in the last 24 hours, although none were from the NHS Ayrshire & Arran region, which means 7,633 people have passed away since March 2020.
However, data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows 9,997 deaths had been registered up to Sunday, April 4 where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.
Across the UK, the figure is 127,100 as of last night.
The number of positive coronavirus cases recorded by NHS Ayrshire & Arran has increased by just two to 16,714.
Of the new cases, one was from East Ayrshire and the other attributed to North Ayrshire. There were zero in South Ayrshire.
A further seven local authority areas did not report a single new case. They were Dumfries & Galloway, East Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Orkney Islands, Scottish Borders and West Dunbartonshire.
There are fewer than five people within the health board's region, in intensive care with confirmed COVID-19 which is the same figure as yesterday.
In addition, the number of people in hospital with confirmed coronavirus at midnight was 15 which is down three from yesterday. Nationally, there are 133 Covid patients being treated in hospital.
A total of 222,382 positive tests have been recorded since the end of February from 1.864 million tests carried out.
Across Scotland, as of 8.30am this morning, a total of 2,682,706 people had received the first dose of their Covid vaccine with 605,126 having received their second dose. These figures do not include data from GP systems on Sunday, April 11, the Scottish Government says.
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