New figures show that Covid-19 cases in Scotland have risen by almost a third in a single week.
According to Public Health Scotland (PHS), 15,541 cases were reported in the week to June 19.
This figure is up 30.5% from the previous week when cases were at 11,909.
These growing numbers are reportedly due to several new sub-variants of the Omicron strain, which have caused UK cases to hit one million.
Data also shows that hospital admissions with Covid increased, jumping to 696 in the week ending June 14, rising 15.2% than the week before.
In the seven days to June 19, 20 people were admitted to intensive care units, which was one more than the previous seven-day period.
It comes as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) elevated the classification of Omicron BA.4 and Omicron BA.5 to the status of "variants of concern" on the basis of observed growth.
PHS said it "continues to monitor Covid-19 variants of concern, in collaboration with other public health agencies in the UK".
The PHS report said 15.5% of all cases reported in the week to June 19 were thought to be reinfections.
Over that week, the 40-49 age group had the highest proportion of reported cases in Scotland.
The highest proportion of people admitted to hospital were those aged 80 and over (26.9%) in the week to June 14.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) last week showed the number of Scots believed to have Covid had increased to one in 30 - up from one in 40 the previous week.
The ONS estimates that in the week ending June 11, 176,900 people in Scotland had the virus - about 3.36% of the population.
The estimated Covid rate in Scotland is higher than in England, where it is believed one in 50 people had coronavirus in the week ending June 11, while one in 45 people are estimated to have had the virus in both Wales and Northern Ireland.
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