Virus tracers fail to contact 686 Scots tourists who should be in 14-day quarantine

coronavirus shutdowns.Figures released yesterday show the number of people referred for the quarter ending June 2020 was 69 per cent down on the same time in 2019.Just 547 patients were seen at a chronic pain clinic compared to 4,972 for the quarter ending June 2019 and 52.9 per cent of patients had been waiting more than 18 weeks compared to 15.4 per cent the previous year.Those with chronic pain are begging the Scottish Government to end their suffering and reopen pain management clinics as a

holidaymakers scheduled to fly to Portugal. Travellers due to head over to the holiday hotspot were dealt a blow last week when the Scottish Government imposed new travel restrictions.

Covid-19. The cases were detected at Parkdale Care Home in Perthshire.

virus infection rate in Portugal has recently increased to 23.0 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to Wednesday, up from 15.3 a week earlier.Portugal was placed on the quarantine list when it was created at the beginning of July.But the country's number of cases dropped to 14.38 cases per 100,000 people last month - below the normal 20 per 100,000 limit.That saw the Scottish Government take Portugal off the quarantine list on August 22 only for it now to be sin-binned once again

England is facing pressure to reconsider quarantine rules for Greece after Scotland and Wales introduced new measures over concerns about rising coronavirus cases.The Department for Transport (DfT) said no change to its rules for England had been made, but Wales’ health minister Vaughan Gething said he would be pressing the UK government for an urgent meeting to consider the potential risk in Greece.The Scottish government announced on Tuesday evening that travellers from Greece would have to

Covid-19 since Scotland's schools re-opened earlier this month. Education Secretary John Swinney announced the latest figures on September 1.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Travellers from Greece will be required to self-isolate at home for 14 days on arrival in Scotland from Thursday.It comes after a significant rise in cases of coronavirus being imported from the Mediterranean country, the Scottish Government said.The measures will come into effect at 4am on Thursday.Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: "We are in the midst of a global pandemic and the situation in

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Francesca Moody is spending August the way she always does: in darkened rooms in Edinburgh, watching some of the best new theater and comedy the world has to offer.All that’s missing are the hundreds of thousands of other people who usually do the same in Scotland's capital.“It’s strange to be in a city that you’re so used to being saturated with culture and arts and people,” Moody, a theater producer, said backstage at the city’s shuttered Traverse Theatre.Usually the

coronavirus.

neighbour-from-hell attacked five police officers after they arrived to break up her asbo-breaching nine hour through the night party.Sarah Stewart, 23, reacted by tearing off their PPE and telling them she had coronavirus, as well as threatening to firebomb their families.Sheriff Tom Hughes jailed Stewart for 27 months and told her: "It is quite clear that on the night in question you caused considerable difficulty to your upstairs neighbour when there was an asbo against you."You paid no

Covid-19 Test and Protect team has been deployed to a Scots primary school after it was hit by the virus. Health chiefs confirmed contact tracing will be carried out at Lady Alice Primary in Greenock.

Scotland's first coronavirus deaths in six weeks today. The First Minister said that two deaths had been recorded in the past 24 hours meaning the national death toll stands at 2,494.The deaths are the first to be declared since July 16.Ms Sturgeon also revealed that 67 new cases of the deadly virus have been reported since yesterday and the total for the nation now stands at 19,998.

quarantine as of Saturday, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has said.Portugal's government expressed anger when the country was placed on the quarantine list when it was created at the beginning of July.But the country's number of cases dropped in the past week to 14.38 cases per 100,000 people, compared to 15 per 100,000 the week before - and has not been over 20 per 100,000 since the week of 15-22 July.The news comes as Austria, Croatia, Switzerland and Trinidad and Tobago were added to the

Gavin Mitchell pulled pints at Scotland’s favourite fictional boozer – but reckons social distancing would have been impossible in The Clansman.The actor, who played Boaby the barman in Still Game, said: “Tam would come up with some sort of scheme but the main problem would be Isa – she’d be running about like a blue-arsed fly trying to figure out what was going on.“Her heid would be nipping not being able to get in about folk’s conversations.“But as for the rest of the clientele, well, we’d

pupils contracting Covid-19 is inevitable, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The First Minister spoke about the clusters of the virus across the country, including those affecting schools, at the Scottish Government's coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh on Tuesday.

blended learning if virus outbreaks meant it was required to keep pupils and teachers safe. But the First Minister stressed the Scottish Government's priority remained keeping children in class full-time and returning schools as close as possible to normal.

holiday, everyone takes a different approach.While some with have every detail of the itinerary planned and prepped, others prefer to be spontaneous and go with the flow.New research by Point A Hotels has unveiled that Scots actually fall into five types of traveller.These include the nature lover, the anxious traveller, the 'pics or it didn't happen', the go with the flow and the perfect planner.You may have an idea which you fall into - but a new quiz helps to determine which one you really

hospital patients to care homes after it was exposed nearly 40 were moved following a positive Covid test. Labour and Conservatives called for urgent statements in the Scottish Parliament in the latest revelations on patient transfers in the pivotal early days of the pandemic.

holidaymakers in a last-minute dash to beat the 14-day quarantine rule on returning from France.Eurotunnel trains sold out and air fares were up to six times more than normal, although ferries increased capacity.Many Brits were caught off guard by the short notice of the Government deadline – and struggled to make it in time.But one resourceful musical ensemble sailed back over the English Channel on a fishing boat and beat the new quarantine rules by just 10 minutes.The Dunedin Consort, from