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Nicola Sturgeon has revealed that there have sadly been 39 new deaths from coronavirus in Scotland overnight.
The Prime Minister also confirmed that 1,216 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 69,660 since the pandemic began in March.
The death toll from the virus in Scotland currently stands at 2,966.
Currently 1,252 people are hospitalized with the virus, and 95 of them are in intensive care.
A geographical breakdown of the new recorded cases revealed that 481 were in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, 236 in Lanarkshire, 80 in Tayside, 80 in Ayrshire and Arran and 128 in Lothian.
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The rest was distributed by the other areas of the health council.
It comes after Scotland yesterday introduced a new five-level lockdown system across the country.
Local lockdowns range from level zero to level four, with restrictions at the highest level as close to a full lockdown as the one the country experienced in March.
The lockdown level for each local authority was confirmed last week and most council areas remained at level three.
But Nicola Sturgeon warned Lanarkshire could move to the toughest level of blocking when existing restrictions are revised next week.
Appearing before the Covid-19 committee of the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, Sturgeon said: “If you lower an area one notch, you open it more, which will lead to increased broadcasts.
“So the judgment has to be – has that area gotten low enough to cope with that increased transmission?
“With Lanarkshire, I don’t think it would surprise anyone to hear that I wouldn’t expect the decision next Tuesday to be whether to go from level three to level two; it will be whether to stay at level three or move to level four.
“That will come to a judgment on whether we see cases continuing to decline, whether we think it is a significant enough decline and the pressure on the NHS.”
The Scottish government has launched a postal code checker so that people can confirm the level at which the area they live in has been placed.
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