public health scotland will augment its daily reports in future, i can advise parliament that from thursday in addition to reporting number of people testing positive for covid pcr test, it will also report a combined figure for the number of people who recorded the first positive pcr or lateral flow test. given the increased complexity, not least the need to avoid duplication, there will be initially a time lag in this reporting. data released on thursday will cover a period up to today but public health scotland will work to reduce this time like in the coming period. additional data will allow us to assess the trend in cases more accurately than now. this is dependent on all of us actually recording lateral flow results whether positive or negative, so let me take this opportunity to remind everyone this can and should be done through the uk government website and you can find that page easily by searching for how to report a lateral flow test. there is one further piece of data tha