Covid in Scotland LIVE as remaining Omicron restrictions eased today

Boris Johnson ending Covid isolation rules is a "distraction" from the PM's lockdown party scandal, according to a Scots health expert.

A public health expert has warned it would “probably be very unwise” for Scotland to follow England in lifting the self-isolation requirement if they test positive for covid.

Drugs crusader Peter Krykant has delivered a proposal to open official Overdose Prevention Centres in Glasgow and Dundee within four months.

A review is set to be launched after four children were given Covid vaccine overdoses of more than twice the approved amount.

Nicola Sturgeon will make a covid statement at Holyrood today after it was claimed Scotland was now "through the worst of Omicron".

Scottish Labour’s health ­spokeswoman Jackie Baillie last night called for an urgent inquiry as it emerged four children were given Covid vaccine overdoses more than twice the approved amount.

Nicola Sturgeon delivered an update on the state of the Covid pandemic in Scotland earlier today.

football team in Scotland over its signing of a player who was ruled by a judge in 2017 to have raped a woman.Crime writer Val McDermid slammed Raith Rovers’ decision to sign David Goodwillie on Monday as a “disgusting and despicable” move that “shatters any claim to be a community or family club.”Goodwillie, a 32-year-old former Scotland international, and an ex-teammate at Dundee United, David Robertson, were ordered to pay damages of 100,000 pounds ($135,000) to a woman they raped, a judge ruled in a civil case in an Edinburgh court in 2017. No criminal charges were brought against either Goodwillie or Robertson.Goodwillie left English team Plymouth following the ruling and has played for Clyde in Scotland’s lower two divisions since then.McDermid, who has sold more than 17 million books, was a Raith director and her name is on the front of the team’s home shirts.She wrote on Twitter she would be ending her lifelong support of the team.“Goodwillie has never expressed a shred of remorse for the rape he committed,” she wrote.

Nicola Sturgeon will make her weekly statement on covid today as her government continues to talk up the benefits of homeworking.

Families in the north east are expected to be hit with more power outages as Storm Malik continues to bater the nation.

At least seven women from West Lothian could be among the thousands across Scotland who could be acquitted and pardoned centuries after they became victims of the 17th century witch-hunt which swept through Scotland.

Scotland's work from home guidance is coming to an end on January 31 as Omicron cases continue to drop.

Guidance on working from home will be relaxed within days after Scotland continued to make progress in the battle against Omicron.

Nicola Sturgeon will deliver another Covid update to the Scottish Parliament later today.

Nicola Sturgeon will make her weekly statement on coronavirus today as Omicron restrictions in Scotland are finally scrapped.

The number of Covid infections remains high in Scotland - despite a drop in cases over the past couple of weeks.

There is evidence of a new type of Omicron Covid, according to experts.

COVID-19 restrictions are to be eased in Scotland from Monday January 24, with nightclubs reopening, large indoor events resuming and social distancing rules dropped.Restrictions on outdoor events in Scotland were previously lifted on January 17. This allowed fans to return to outdoor concerts and football matches, after COVID restrictions were put in place on Boxing Day, reducing outdoor events to a capacity of 500.Nightclubs had been closed since December 26 but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had said that all restrictions, including the closure of nightclubs, could be lifted from January 24.The new changes will take effect after a “significant fall” in new case numbers, with Sturgeon commented that Scotland had “turned the corner on the Omicron wave”.

Many restrictions in Scotland will be scrapped from Monday as cases from the Omicron surge fall.