Nicola Sturgeon coronavirus update LIVE as more school pupils and staff across Scotland test positive

Protect Scotland app, according to Nicola Sturgeon. Kirsty Feerick's partner Daniel Rafferty tested positive for Covid-19 today having come down with symptoms, including a loss of taste and smell.Daniel, 26, had been feeling run down without feeling badly ill before suddenly being unable to taste or smell anything at all on Thursday.

coronavirus in Scotland in the last 24-hour period taking the death toll to 2,499. Across the country cases of the deadly virus are rising everyday with 176 people contracting Covid-19 in the same period.

pub crawls as health officials struggle to keep on top of the rapid spread of Covid-19. The First Minister made the direct plea on the day new restrictions on movement were extended from Glasgow across most of west central Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon has praised Humza Yousaf and his partner Nadia El-Nakla for a 'brave account' of their miscarriage experience, despite it sparking 'awful memories' for her. The First Minister has applauded Scotland's Justice Minister and his partner for publicly revealing they 'experienced five pregnancies, with just one of those resulting in a baby' in the past three years.

coronavirus  cases were recorded in Scotland yesterday - the last time more people tested positive for May 8, when there were 225 new cases of infection. Figures were also on the rise on Saturday with 141 people testing positive for the virus.

coronavirus in the past 24 hours. The First Minister also hit out at “selfish and irresponsible" Covid idiots after more than 300 people were thrown out of an illegal rave at a rented Scots mansion.Police  shut down the party at a £1625-a-night property in Midlothian on Saturday night.

holidaymakers  heading to Greece will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 4am today after new restrictions implemented by the Scottish Government come into force today. Passengers heading to the holiday destination were thrown into chaos just weeks after France was also added to the list with little time for sunseekers to make it home.

Nicola Sturgeon will set out her plan to create jobs in the next year as she attempts to reboot the Scottish economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Scottish National Party leader will address the parliament in Edinburgh in her annual "programme for government" speech.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterSixteen new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Ayrshire during the past 24 hours.It takes the total number of positive tests in the region since the outbreak began to 1,340.Across Scotland, a total of 123 people have tested positive during the last day.No new deaths have been reported, with the number of people in Scots hospitals at 251, five of whom are in intensive care.Nicola Sturgeon

First Minister vowed to look into the rise in cases over the last 48 hours. There were 123 new cases of coronavirus in Scotland registered overnight - after the 88 announced yesterday.

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Nicola Sturgeon insists she is "not trying to police social lives" as she stressed new Covid-19 powers are a 'last resort'. The Scottish Government confirmed from (today) Friday that police can break up house parties involving more than 15 people from more than one household.

coronavirus in around six weeks. Nicola Sturgeon announced the deaths in the Scottish Parliament yesterday ahead of First Minister's Questions.

Covid-19  in the  Borders in the latest cluster to hit Scotland. NHS Borders Health Protection team are currently dealing with an outbreak in Hawick.The cases are linked to three businesses in the town, Morrisons, the Trinity Bar and Baguette 'N' Go.

Airdrie,  Uddingston  Grammar and Stepps Primary School were the latest schools in Scotland to record positive cases in the last 24 hours. Yesterday a nursery in Fife was forced to close after a young child tested positive for Covid-19.

Nicola Sturgeon has made a renewed call for the UK Government to extend the furlough scheme beyond October amid fears unemployment will rocket when it is removed. The First Minister said the Treasury should follow the example of France and Germany by extending economic support for businesses which were forced to close during lockdown.

Nicola Sturgeon described the 43 positive cases identified so far, as part of an outbreak at the 2 Sisters food processing plant, as "a significant cluster". Of those cases, 37 are factory workers and six are contacts.

Nicola Sturgeon has said she was not aware of female civil servants being advised not be alone with her predecessor Alex Salmond.But she said MSPs probing the Scottish Government’s handling of sexual harassment allegations made against the former first minster were “perfectly entitled” to take up this issue.She vowed she was “absolutely committed to fully complying with the inquiry”.Her comments came after concerns were raised about “huge swathes” of information provided by the Scottish