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A total of 486 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland in the past 24 hours, the most cases recorded in a single day, Nicola Sturgeon said.
Speaking at the Scottish government’s daily press conference, the prime minister said that two more people died after they were confirmed to have COVID-19.
A total of 2,508 deaths have been recorded in Scotland.
Sturgeon said: “Obviously that is a real cause for concern, but it also underscores why we took very decisive and very tough action yesterday to try to control the virus.”
Some 25,495 people have tested positive for the virus in Scotland, up from 25,009 on Tuesday.
Of the new cases, 224 are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 107 in Lanarkshire and 57 in Lothian.
Scotland has 83 hospitalized people confirmed with the virus, an increase of 10 in 24 hours.
Of them, 10 were in intensive care.
In Wales, the coronavirus rate is now 46.8 cases per 100,000, and Prime Minister Mark Drakeford said this represented a “clear upward curve”.
At a press conference in Cardiff, he said he was asking the people of Wales to “think carefully about where you are going and who you are meeting.”
Drakeford said the Welsh government had considered whether to revert to the “stay local” regulations that were in effect earlier this year, but decided it was “not proportionate”.
“If you can visit a pub or restaurant close to home, where you don’t need to take a trip, it is preferable than getting in your car and going to live the same experience further away from home,” he added.
“It’s common sense advice.”
