Nicola Sturgeon coronavirus update LIVE as Aberdeen put into lockdown after spike in cases - Scottish Daily Record

Aberdeen decision 'not taken lightly'

Here’s what Nicola Sturgeon said on the decision to reimpose lockdown in Aberdeen:

“The main link identified in this cluster has been the Hawthorn Bar in Aberdeen city centre, however more detailed analysis by NHS Grampian and Test & Protect has shown that this one venue does not account for all of the positive cases. Indeed, in total now, more than 20 other licensed premises are part of the contact tracing picture.

“So when we take all this information together, we have been led to the conclusion that we must now take further, immediate steps, on a highly precautionary basis to prevent further spread and give the Test & Protect teams the best possible chance of successfully breaking these chains of transmission.

“Earlier this morning I chaired a meeting of SGoRR, the Scottish Government’s resilience committee, because I wanted us to consider the latest data that we had overnight, and what our response to that should be.

“NHS Grampian, Police Scotland, and the leaders and chief executive of Aberdeen City Council played a full part in that meeting and I’m very grateful to them for their constructive and very helpful contributions.

“But we are at a stage of this pandemic where extreme caution is necessary and also, in my view, sensible. I’m also mindful of the need to act quickly and decisively if we are to succeed in our aim of keeping transmission as close to elimination levels as possible and also to protect our priority - and it is our priority - of getting young people back to school.

“So I can confirm it was agreed at SGoRR this morning, albeit extremely reluctantly, to reimpose some restrictions on the Aberdeen City area.”

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2020-08-05 11:03:24Z
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