Nicola Sturgeon coronavirus update LIVE as First Minister to make lockdown statement to MSPs - Scottish Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon is due to make a statement to MSPs on Tuesday, updating them on lockdown.

While the Scottish Government has already said the current restrictions will last till at least the middle of February, the First Minister said it would provide some detail on “other steps we are planning to take”.

She stressed that “the current lockdown is working”, saying the number of infections was falling.

But she added: “That said, case numbers are still high, too high, much higher than we would want them to be, so we need to get them down further – then we need to keep them as low as possible.”

Scotland has recorded six deaths of coronavirus patients and 848 new cases in the past 24 hours.

The death toll under this measure – of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days – is now 6,112.

Speaking at the Scottish Government coronavirus briefing, the First Minister said the daily test positivity rate is 9.5%, up from 8.1% on Sunday when 1,003 new cases were recorded.

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