New Covid map shows neighbourhood hotspots with most cases across South Lanarkshire

Covid-19 hotspot ares is pleading with locals to stick to the guidelines as cases continue to soar. A total of 20 'red' wards, that only treat coronavirus patients, are currently running in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThree Ayrshire residents have died from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, new figures from Public Health Scotland show.Two of the tragic victims of the disease lived in North Ayrshire and the other in East Ayrshire, bringing the death toll for the county to 200.The sad news was revealed this afternoon after Nicola Sturgeon announced new Council area Covid restriction levels.Ayrshire has recorded a

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterAyrshire high school pupils in S4 to S6 and their teachers needs to wear masks in class from Monday.Parents dropping off and picking up children at school playgrounds and gates must also don face coverings from the start of next week.The rules are part of new Scottish Government restrictions being applied as part of the new Covid -19 tier level system.Ayrshire has been placed in Tier 3.Teachers

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says the Scottish Government will introduce a new five-tier coronavirus alert system from next month as a further 1,401 people were diagnosed with the disease.Regions will be designated Tier 0 (the least restrictive), Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 or Tier 4 (close to a full lockdown) from Monday, November 2.MSPs at Holyrood will vote on the plans with talks to take place

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A JUDGE-LED initiative in courts across the south of Scotland that has proved to be successful in reducing the backlog of summary court cases caused by the coronavirus pandemic has extended to Airdrie.Currently, many sheriff court cases scheduled for trial resolve by an agreed guilty plea between the prosecutor and the defence agent.However, this often takes place on the day that the trial is due to start,

Nicola Sturgeon’s plea not to travel south of the border to watch the Old Firm match at English pubs.

Star Wars movie is to take place in the Highlands.A crew will be flying in to Scotland to capture shots of the snow-capped mountains and scenic views.Work will begin in December and is expected to last three days.Plot details of the upcoming movie are being kept under wraps, but New Zealander Taika Waititi will direct the film.He will also co-write with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who helped script the Oscar-nominated 1917 and Edgar Wright’s upcoming movie Last Night In Soho.A source said: “It’s great

Nicola Sturgeon is considering travel restrictions to prevent people coming to Scotland from known Covid hotspots elsewhere in the UK. It could mean residents in cities like Manchester and Liverpool - where the number of infections have rocketed in the last month - being asked not to travel north of the Border.

Perth and Kinross rose by almost 50 per cent last week. Data from Public Health Scotland shows 30 cases per 100,000 in the seven days up until October 12.Controversial road project set to get the go ahead despite objectionsThat is up from 21.1 the week before.

link.But just 41 of those patients were tested, three of whom returned a positive result. That meant 126 patients were discharged to care homes without being tested.Central Scotland MSP Monica Lennon has since written to the health board to find out which care homes were affected – but the request was refused as being “manifestly unreasonable”.

Scottish ministers' handling of coronavirus as markedly better than their UK counterparts.The Survation survey of more than 2,000 Scots - carried out for pro-independence group Progress Scotland - shows 67% believe the Scottish Government is competent, while 70% viewed Boris Johnson's Cabinet as not competent.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also received higher ratings for her handling of the pandemic than the Prime Minister for his.Progress Scotland managing director Angus Robertson said: "This

coronavirus in the last 24 hours across Scotland. The Scottish Government has released the latest figures which shows the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic in March is 38,998.

Scottish Independence ahead of next year's Holyrood election. A survey carried out by Savanta found 53% of the public backed the creation of a new independent Scottish state compared to 47% who would vote no - the same figures that emerged in a rival poll by Survation last month.

a new map published by Public Health Scotland has revealed how those cases break down across different neighbourhoods.In the week from Monday, September 28, to Sunday, October 4, the Hamilton area had 222 of the 450 cases in South Lanarkshire.It has a rate of 2.19 cases for every 1000 residents - and 21 of the 46 neighbourhoods across the region with at least one case per 1000 residents are in the Hamilton area.Rutherglen and Cambuslang saw an average of 1.31 cases per 1000 residents last week

East Kilbride as of Friday for just over two weeks in a bid to halt the surge in coronavirus cases.

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Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.More than 100 new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Lanarkshire for five consecutive days.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed another 130 cases in the region today as she warned further restrictions across Scotland may be needed "in the near future".Since the first cases of the virus were confirmed in the region in March, there have been just six days when more than 100 new cases have been