Coronavirus infections in Scotland are now 36 times higher than they were at this point last year. The seven day average of the number of daily infections recorded currently stands at 5,424, according to the latest Scottish Government data.
It comes days after Scotland recorded its highest ever daily rise in infections on Sunday, when 7,113 Scots tested positive for Covid over a 24-hour period.
Daily case numbers of more than 5,000 were also recorded on a further two days last week as the country continues to deal with a huge surge in infections.
And the latest figures are a stark contrast to those recorded in the summer last year, when Nicola Sturgeon claimed that Scotland was ‘not far away’ from eliminating the virus.
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