Coronavirus in Scotland LIVE as rapid test kits rolled out for college students and staff

shock news that one in every 10 care home residents died of Covid in the first year of the pandemic. Care Inspectorate figures showed 3774 lost their lives to the virus up to March 31, 2021.

pandemic news will be dominated by Boris Johnson’s former adviser, Dominic Cummings. The aide is poised to give potentially damning testimony on the UK government’s handling of coronavirus, and particularly the decision to delay lockdown last September, when he appears in front of a joint session of the Commons Health and Science committees.

iOS - Android The girls will also choose a charity that is close to their hearts and endeavour to highlight the cause and raise as much funds for them as possible over the course of the coming months. Jan Sue Smith, director of Miss Scotland, Lanarkshire Live : "This year there is sadly no big in person event.

coronavirus briefing later today as cases rise in some parts of the country.The First Minister will provide an update on the state of the pandemic in Scotland as the country slowly moves out of lockdown.It's expected Sturgeon will address the situation in Glasgow, Clackmannanshire and East Renfrewshire where cases of the virus are particularly high.Glasgow is the only council area in Scotland that remains in Level Three lockdown, while the rest of the mainland sits in Level Two.The news comes as

front-line care staff are still waiting for their Scottish Government promised £500 bonus - six months after it was first announced. A GMB union survey has revealed a staggering 40 per cent of their members in the sector have still not been paid - with some workers told they may have to wait until July for payment.

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A Scottish Government spokesperson said: “Cancer treatment has been a priority throughout the pandemic and for those who have received a diagnosis with a decision on treatment the wait before that treatment has, on average, been three days.“But we know that necessary decisions to focus our NHS on responding to Covid-19 has meant delays in diagnosis and this, coupled with people’s reluctance to seek treatment for concerns, has led to a build in the numbers needing diagnosis and care.

Glasgow is the only part of Scotland still in level three, and some businesses have criticised the decision to keep it under stricter measures. The new Scottish Health Secretary said ministers wanted to ease restrictions as soon as possible and hoped after this week it would become clear whether case numbers had led to a rise in ICU patients.Yousaf said the “critical question” is whether infections caused by the new Covid variant, so-called Indian variant, lead to more severe disease.

John Swinney has been removed from his job as education secretary and put in charge of Scotland’s covid recovery. He will remain as Deputy First Minister and was moved as Nicola Sturgeon begins a long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle.

Nicola Sturgeon admitted there was a level of concern about the number of new cases linked to the Indian variant which has spread across parts of Europe. The Scottish Government's National Clinical Director Professor Jason Leitch said cases in Scotland's biggest city are higher than they would like and urged people to follow the rules to stop the further spread of the variant that has killed thousands in India.

First Minister said that case numbers in North East region taking in Forres, Elgin, Lossiemouth and Buckie, are more than four times higher than in the rest of the country which is due to move to Level 2 on Monday.Sturgeon said :“It’s against that backdrop that, unless the situation was to materially improve over the next few days, it would simply not be safe or sensible to ease restrictions there from Monday.”Read the full story.The “huge success” of the vaccination programme along with

First Minister will likely confirm the country can move to level two as of next Monday when she updates Scots at a media briefing later today. Speculation mounted last night that the Scottish Government will introduce a traffic light system by the end of the month which provide a list of foreign countries Scots can travel to without the need for quarantine.

coronavirus deaths were recorded overnight in Scotland with 85 new positive cases. The Scottish Government announced the latest figures on Wednesday, May 5, as efforts to control the virus spreading continue.

live TV debate between Scotland’s five main party leaders. Policy on covid recovery, foreign travel and the creation of a National Care Service was hammered out in a lively discussion.

coronavirus in Scotland with no new deaths recorded overnight. The Scottish Government released the latest figures this afternoon - bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 226,644.

NHS worker Lybi Halliday has been found following a frantic police search. The 21-year-old, from Hamilton, had vanished after a night out in Glasgow city centre on Friday, April 30 at around 11.30pm.

holidays "within limits" this summer according to a leading expert, while ministers said the travel green list will be "coming soon". Peter Openshaw - Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London - said it was vital people do not drop their guard because there are likely to be further outbreaks of coronavirus.

coronavirus policies.In a statement, NTIA Scotland said: “Scottish Government support has been wholly inadequate to compensate for operating losses and a majority of businesses have now incurred unsustainable debt as a result.”Noting that 39,000 jobs are at risk, it argued that the costs of rent, staff furlough, insurance and other expenses are now far exceeding the income gained from revenue and government grants.They said the average small business in the sector has now exceeded £150,000 in