Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that for the week ending March 20, the percentage of people testing positive for covid has continued to increase.
They estimate that 473,800 people in Scotland had covid which is said to equate to 9% of the population - or around one in 11 people.
Millions of people across the UK are continuing to test positive for the virus and are self-isolating as a result thanks to the latest variant - stealth omicron - with recent figures showing 3.5 million people in the UK are affected.
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The news comes as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday (March 30) that Scotland would get rid of the legal need to wear face coverings and would instead turn it to guidance.
Dr Jenny Harries, head of the UK Health Security Agency has said that covid infections are now at a "very high level" and now, people who have already caught covid are being infected for yet a a second time - partly thanks to omicron, reports the BBC.
Robert Cuffe, head of statistics at BBC News, said people are now "pretty likely" to catch coronaviruses multiple times as the strain is better at evading immunity the body has built up from a previous infection.
He said: "Immunity fades and coronaviruses evolve. Most people can expect to catch the other coronaviruses, such as those which cause common cold symptoms, many times in their life."
He said that while at the start of the pandemic fewer than 1% of Covid cases were reinfections, Omicron has now changed that, adding: "This looks very different to the versions of coronavirus that we saw before.
"Its differences give it a better chance of sneaking past the body's early defences, which were based on exposure to previous covid infections. And so the rates of re-infection have been about 10 times higher this year compared with rates seen earlier in the pandemic."
The good news is that the current omicron strain is not more likely to make you seriously ill and if you have had covid before, your symptoms may be milder the second time around.
However experts such as immunologist Professor Eleanor Riley says a person's "main concern should be whether you might pass it on to someone who is particularly vulnerable."
