Scotland has recorded nine new coronavirus deaths and 5,917 positive cases in the past 24 hours, according to the PA Media news agency.
The daily figures from the Scottish government show 494 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19, of which 34 are in intensive care.
The Covid-19 death toll in Scotland under the daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - now stands at 9,780.
The test positivity rate stands at 12.2%.
A total of 4,369,398 people have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine while 3,988,961 have received their second dose and 2,436,952 have received a third dose or booster.
More than 10,000 new Omicron cases confirmed in UK
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has reported 10,059 new confirmed cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 across the UK.This brings the total confirmed cases of the variant in the country to 24,968.
According to the latest figures released on Saturday, the number of confirmed Omicron cases in England stood at 23,168 - up 9,427 on the previous day’s total.
Cases in Northern Ireland rose to 827, a rise of 514.
Scotland’s cases have reached 792, an increase of 96.
In Wales there are 181, up 22 on the previous day.
Thousands join anti-Covid passport protest in London
Thousands of people are marching through London in a protest against vaccine passports, with the hashtag #londonprotest trending on Twitter.Online posters advertising the event asked people taking part to gather from 12pm at Parliament Square in Westminster, from where they have since began a march through the capital.
Among those marching with protesters were Gillian McKeith, former host of Channel 4’s You Are What You Eat, and Maajid Nawaz, the LBC radio host.
In a video posted to Twitter, Nawaz pointed to a stream of people marching through the city, and said: “This is endless, it goes on as far as the eye can see. When I say we are coming, this is what I mean; you see how many people are coming.”
According to a report in the Express, the demonstration was organised by a coalition of groups including Take a Stand London, Save Our Rights UK, and The Great Reopening.
Many of those marching held placards that had been printed by a group called Together, which hosts an online petition against vaccine passports, mandatory vaccinations and the government’s summary introduction of Covid powers that has been signed by more than 167,000 people.
The protest had its critics online, however, with some observers suggesting that by gathering together those taking part would make lockdowns more likely by increasing transmission of the virus.
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