More than 1,700 new positive Covid cases have been reported across the north and north-east in the past 24 hours.
Across Grampian there are 1,012 new cases, including 215 in Moray, 365 in Aberdeen City and 429 in Aberdeenshire.
NHS Highland has reported 657 further cases with 491 in the Highland region and 166 in Argyll and Bute.
Both health boards have reported more than 10% of total cases since the start of the pandemic in the past seven days.
An additional 32 cases have been confirmed in Orkney, 23 in the Western Isles and 13 in Shetland.
Scottish health boards have reported more than 10,000 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours.
The latest data shows there are 10,392 new cases with a test positivity rate of 27.7%.
From Thursday, the daily data will include positive cases confirmed by PCR tests and lateral flow tests.
The Scottish Government has also reported 16 deaths of people who had tested positive for coronavirus.
Hospital admissions continuing to rise
The number of people with Covid in Scotland’s hospitals is continuing to increase, according to the latest data.
The number of coronavirus patients in NHS Grampian hospitals has risen to 83 – an increase of four since yesterday.
On Monday, it was reported that the health board recorded its highest level of Covid hospitalisations in more than a month.
Today’s figure matches the number of patients recorded in Grampian on December 12.
Hospital admissions in NHS Highland hospitals have also increased by four in the past 24 hours, from 34 to 38.
Across the country, a total of 1,479 people are currently in hospital with confirmed Covid, which is an increase of 47 overnight.
The latest figure includes 54 people in intensive care – seven in Grampian and five in the Highlands.
Vaccine roll-out
The vaccine programme in Scotland is continuing to be rolled out, with 15,437 boosters or third doses administered in the past 24 hours.
This brings the total to 3,130,502.
NHS Orkney and NHS Shetland are the health boards in Scotland with the highest percentage of over 18s to have had the booster, currently 82.3%.
A further 995 people received their first dose, bringing the total to 4,393,689, and 2,979 their got their second dose, totaling 4,051,635.
