Summary

  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson is moved to intensive care as his coronavirus symptoms worsen.

  • Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sends her best wishes to Mr Johnson.

  • It is confirmed that eight residents of a care home in Dumbarton died in connection with the virus.

  • The family of a West Dunbartonshire care worker who died with Covid-19 pay tribute to her.

  • In Scotland 296 have died and more than 4,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus.

  1. Prime minister is a 'fighter'published at 08:30 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Mr Carlaw says he is sure that Boris Johnson is "enormously frustrated" at the moment.

    He said the prime minister would have been "absolutely determined" to lead from the front last week and would have found it very hard in isolation.

    He told Good Morning Scotland that Mr Johnson should possibly have been resting instead.

    "But he is a fighter so I suspect that is what he will be doing just now," he said.

  2. Johnson news was 'very shocking moment'published at 08:21 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Carrie Symonds and Boris JohnsonImage source, Getty Images

    Jackson Carlaw, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, says Boris Johnson's admission to intensive care was a "very shocking moment".

    He told Good Morning Scotland that his first thoughts were with the prime minister and his partner Carrie Symonds, who is seven months pregnant.

    "He is a strong, physical, robust man, but as I think we know this virus is no respecter of anybody and the fact he is in intensive care is obviously something that is alarming," he said.

  3. Prime minister's recovery could take 'some time'published at 08:10 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    An intensive care consultant has told BBC Scotland that the decision to admit Boris Johnson to intensive care would not have been taken lightly.

    Dr Ron Daniels said critical care beds were a "scarce resource" in all UK hospitals because of the coronavirus crisis.

    He told Good Morning Scotland that he suspected the prime minister was taken there because his blood oxygen levels were "dangerously low".

    Dr Daniels said patients would be fitted with a normal oxygen mask initally and then a tight-fitting mask. The third level of care is a mechanical ventilator and a breathing tube.

    Mr Johnson has not been put on a ventilator yet, according to Number 10.

    Dr Daniels said the prime minister's recovery could take some time and he would be unlikely to return to ministerial duties for a while.

  4. A visual guide to the pandemicpublished at 08:08 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    As the number of people infected with coronavirus surpasses one million, here's our visual guide to the outbreak so far.

  5. Wildlife groups call for animal markets to be shut downpublished at 08:04 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

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  6. Scotland's papers: Concern as PM moved to intensive carepublished at 07:57 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    The news that Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care dominates the front pages.

    Every national title in Scotland carries the story, with most using a picture of the prime minister from one of his video messages broadcast before he was admitted to hospital.

    Composite image of newspaper front pages
  7. Power is no protection from harmpublished at 07:46 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Laura Kuenssberg
    BBC political editor

    The UK government has taken a highly unusual move of asking Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to step up to deputise for the prime minister when needed.

    Talking on Monday night, Mr Raab said that the government's business would go on, ministers focused on delivering the plans to tackle coronavirus that Mr Johnson had instructed them to do.

    But the foreign secretary seemed understandably, but obviously, shocked.

    Politicians have repeatedly said that coronavirus does not discriminate, the infection does not pick and choose.

    With Boris Johnson now in intensive care, it is abundantly clear that power is no protection from harm.

    Read more from Laura here

    Boris JohnsonImage source, Getty Images
  8. Who is Dominic Raab?published at 07:42 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    If you didn't know much about him before this, here are some key points on the man deputising for Boris Johnson:

    • 46-year-old former lawyer
    • Son of a Czech-born Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in 1938
    • Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge
    • Conservative MP since 2010
    • Current foreign secretary and first secretary of state
    • Supporter of campaign to leave the European Union
    • Black belt in karate

    Read our full profile here.

    Dominic RaabImage source, Getty Images
  9. Prime minister 'tried to persevere' through viruspublished at 07:23 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Boris JohnsonImage source, bbc

    A former advisor to Boris Johnson during his time as Mayor of London has told BBC Scotland that the prime minister's admission to intensive care is "extremely worrying".

    Guto Harri said Mr Johnson would have been trying to persevere since announcing he had symptoms of the virus 11 days ago.

    Mr Johnson has spent the night in intensive care at a central London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened on Monday.

    Mr Harri told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland that the prime minister would have been trying his best to make the "big judgement calls" over the past week even though he was ill.

    "Being that involved is not very conducive to giving your body the chance to heal, even if you are - as he insisted he was - following medical advice at every point," he said.

  10. 'I still come to my cafe because I don't know what else to do'published at 07:14 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Graziano Borghese

    Graziano Borghese has been going to his deserted cafe every day since the coronavirus lockdown came into effect two weeks ago.

    He is trying to find a way to prevent his business in Edinburgh closing for good, and admits: "I don't know what else to do."

    Pacing up and down inside his Italian cafe, the father-of-three is close to tears as he tells of his fears that his business will only be able to survive for a few more weeks.

    Read the full story here.

  11. Job swap: The council workers switching roles to help the vulnerablepublished at 07:01 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Local authorities have been reassessing how to deliver vital services during the coronavirus lockdown.

    It means councils' key workers are performing extra duties to take care of the most vulnerable.

    North Lanarkshire Council is now using school catering staff to feed elderly residents living in the sheltered housing complexes.

    BBC Scotland's The Nine visited a school in Viewpark where lunches were being sent to 56 vulnerable pensioners.

    Read more here.

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  12. Care workers 'are not given the credit they deserve'published at 06:53 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Care worker Precious Omoruyi says she was turned away from a supermarket during an NHS-only time slot.

    The 22-year-old's shopping trip coincided with a time slot reserved for NHS staff but she felt, as a frontline care worker, she had every right to be there.

    She was shocked to discover that the store had other ideas.

    Read more here.

    Precious Omoruyi
  13. Nicola Sturgeon 'sending every good wish' to Boris Johnsonpublished at 06:38 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said her thoughts are with Boris Johnson and his family after the prime minister was taken to intensive care.

    Ms Sturgeon tweeted that she was "sending every good wish" to the PM.

    Boris Johnson and Nicola SturgeonImage source, Getty Images
  14. Good morningpublished at 06:29 British Summer Time 7 April 2020

    Boris JohnsonImage source, Getty Images

    Concerns for the health of Prime Minister Boris Johnson dominate the early news on Tuesday morning.

    Mr Johnson has spent the night in intensive care at a central London hospital after his coronavirus symptoms worsened.

    Downing Street said he was moved to the unit on the advice of his medical team and was receiving "excellent care".

    Mr Johnson has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputise "where necessary", a spokesman added.

    The prime minister, 55, was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital with "persistent symptoms" on Sunday evening.

    Stay here for more live updates on all the coronavirus issues affecting Scotland throughout the day.