Lanarkshire has seen two new cases while Lothian, Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Grampian have an extra one.
Two people have died from coronavirus in Britain so far, a grandfather in his 80s in Milton Keynes and a woman in her 70s in Reading.
The family of the male victim who died yesterday have hit out at the hospital for not testing and isolating him soon enough.
He was left 'coughing excessively' on a ward for six hours leaving family fearing fear he could have passed on the infection to others.
The man died at Milton Keynes Hospital after he was admitted on March 3 with suspected pneumonia having recently returned from a Caribbean cruise where he had visited several countries.
It comes as elderly people are to be told to stay at home under new government guidelines to tackle the outbreak of the virus as health officials urge Britons to check in on their relatives.
The elderly should be prepared for 'social distancing' policies, which are to be announcement by ministers next week, government sources said.
Relatives of the latest victim were told he had the disease - which has a mortality rate of 15 per cent in those over 80 - just an hour before he died on Thursday evening.
The man was left 'coughing excessively' on a shared ward for six hours as patients warned hospital workers to check him for the deadly virus.
One of the man's family members, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Guardian: 'Our concern is that the hospital were too slow to detect that our relative had symptoms similar to those of coronavirus and too slow to move him from a ward into isolation, and that that may have put a lot of people – fellow patients on the ward, staff who were looking after him and visitors who came to see him – at risk of contracting the virus from him.
'We think they should have put him into isolation right away, as soon as he arrived, given his symptoms.'
They added: 'Despite that, he was put on a ward with lots of other sick patients for six or seven hours before he was moved into isolation.'
He is the second person who died from the virus on British soil so far as experts warn the killer virus can be caught 'from anyone, anywhere, any time.'
A woman in her 70s was the first UK victim after being diagnosed with coronavirus while at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.
The woman - who had 'underlying health conditions' - tested positive for the killer infection on Wednesday before succumbing to the illness the following day.
England's deputy chief medical officer Jennie Harries told The BBC that Britain is 'teetering on the edge' of staying on top of coronavirus spreading.
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