Covid Scotland: Another 2,134 cases of coronavirus recorded in the last 24 hours while no new deaths have been reported

The death toll in Scotland since the start of the pandemic remains at 7,757 since no additional deaths were reported today.

There were 469 people in hospital yesterday with coronavirus, up 24 from the day before, and 40 people are being treated in intensive care.

To date, 3,934,408 people have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccination and 2,893,271 have received their second dose.

The Scottish Government added that Public Health Scotland is aware of a delay in results from the Glasgow lighthouse laboratory.

An investigation into the delay is ongoing and the laboratory is continuing to process test results while they work to resolve the issue.

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