First Minister will be joined by clinical director Jason Leitch for the televised update at 12.15pm. It comes as Scotland has recorded more than 4,000 coronavirus cases in a day for the first time since the start of the pandemic.Scottish Government figures published on Thursday show there were 4,234 positive tests over the past 24 hours.Six deaths of Covid patients were also registered, meaning the death toll under this daily measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – now stands at 7,722.It is the third time this week that the record for positive cases over 24 hours has been broken.On Wednesday, 3,887 positive tests were recorded – the previous highest number since the start of the pandemic –.