THE Borders has recorded 45 cases of coronavirus in the last day, latest figures show.

At 2pm today (November 23), the Scottish Government published new data on cases.

And the latest figures show that the region has now seen 10,596 virus cases since March last year.

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There are currently 26 people in hospital with recently confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the government data.

That figure is the same as on Sunday and Monday.

Scotland has recorded 709,399 cases since the start of the pandemic, the data shows.