Ms Young says the NHS Louisa Jordan will only be for Covid-19 patients who are aged 18 years or older.

The hospital's chief executive told BBC Scotland that it was for patients who did not need intensive care - or who were recovering after being in intensive care.

"Clearly though, we have made provision for high dependency here because we have to take account that some patients may deteriorate after they're here," she said.

"We have the ability to stabilise them and get them returned back by ambulance to an appropriate critical care unit."

Jill Young tells Good Morning Scotland that the NHS Louisa Jordan is "fully functioning", with all the facilities available at a normal hospital - including a pharmacy, CT scanner, and cleaning and catering teams.

Many of the staff are student nurses, junior doctors and returners to the NHS.

Ms Young said that more than 100 staff were at the hospital last week for training and induction.

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The chief executive of Scotland's coronavirus hospital in Glasgow has said the "incredible" project to build the facility was of a scale she has never seen before.

The £43m facility at the Scottish Events Campus will be ready to receive Covid-19 patients from today if required.

Jill Young said more than 700 people were involved in the design and construction of the hospital.

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Holyrood committees suspended during the coronavirus outbreak are to be held remotely, Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh has announced.

Changes to Scottish Parliament standing orders are to be proposed on Tuesday, when MSPs return to Holyrood after the Easter recess, which will formalise virtual meetings.

Previously, only committee hearings held in person within the Scottish Parliament were considered formal meetings.

Mr Macintosh said it was "quite clear" that parliament should continue to work throughout the pandemic, adding that there was a "pressing need" for government scrutiny.

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A former British paratrooper is isolating on a previously uninhabited island after lockdown measures were introduced midway through a fundraising challenge to walk the UK coastline.

Chris Lewis has walked 12,000 miles after setting off from near his home in Swansea in August 2017.

He has now been given special permission to live in the one house on Hildasay, Shetland, with his dog Jet.

The 108-hectare island sits off the west coast of the Shetland mainland.

The 39-year-old was sleeping in a tent on mainland Shetland when lockdown restrictions were imposed on 23 March to limit the spread of coronavirus.

Read more here.

Scotland's former chief medical officer Sir Harry Burns says the level of coronavirus testing in the UK and Scotland is "inadequate".

Sir Harry criticised the UK government's early approach to testing as "lackadaisical" and said we should be testing far more.

He told Good Morning Scotland that evidence showed the way to drive down the virus's circulation within the community was testing, followed by identifying and isolating cases quickly.

He said officials did not acquire testing capacity quickly enough.

"Many, many universities around the country will have the appropriate testing equipment and it's only now that they're being recruited into the exercise," he added.

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One of the most significant moments in the UK’s economic response to the Coronavirus crisis happens today.

From 8am, businesses will be able to apply for money to cover staff wages, under the job retention scheme.

It covers 80% of wages up to £2,500 a month even if they can’t work – a term known as furloughing.

We’re told the scheme can handle 450,000 applications an hour and employers should get the money within six working days.

Anna Macdonald from Amati Global Investors told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: “There will be millions of submissions, I imagine.

“The Office of Budget Responsibility are thinking maybe 30% of all employees in the UK are going to be covered – which is going to come at a huge cost.

“The government has extended - by an extra month - the scheme to cover wages until the end of June.

“That’s important because it gives companies some breathing space, because you have to give a 45-day consultation period for redundancies.”

Read more on what it means to be furloughed here.

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Scientists have used skills needed to develop life support systems for manned space missions to build a ventilator to help treat the most severe cases of coronavirus.

The Planetary Science Group at the University of Aberdeen say it now has a fully working prototype for use.

It hopes it will be quick and cheap enough to build for nations with underdeveloped healthcare system.

The team is now working to have it certified, so it can be deployed.

Read more here.

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The GMB union in Scotland says the Scottish government should clarify whether people are being transferred into care homes without being tested for coronavirus.

It follows newspaper reports over the weekend that some residents are being treated in hospital and then returning to care homes without a test for Covid-19.

The union's general secretary Gary Smith said the homes contained some of the most "frail and elderly" people in our society and told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the situation was "frightening".

"We have a crisis within a crisis in our care sector," he said.

He called on the Scottish government to investigate the issue and confirm how many residents had been returning to homes without testing.

Scotland's papers report support and criticism of PM Boris Johnson's role in tackling the coronavirus crisis.

Today's opening of Scotland's new specialist hospital NHS Louisa Jordan, also dominate many of the papers.

Check out the front pages here.

Emergency virus hospital NHS Louisa Jordan took less than three weeks to transform into a 1,036-bed medical facility.

This timelapse video shows just how it was done.

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Scotland's temporary coronavirus hospital, NHS Louisa Jordan, is ready to receive its first patients.

But the Scottish government says it is confident it will not be needed.

The £43m facility at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow will provide up to 1,036 additional beds to support the pandemic response.

Construction of the hospital began on 31 March after the British Army conducted a feasibility study. Work took 18 days to complete.

The hospital was named after Glasgow born First World War nurse Sister Louisa Jordan who died on active service in Serbia in 1915 as part of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Services.

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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman led the Scottish government briefing on the coronavirus crisis on Sunday.

The key points were:

• 10 more deaths in hospital confirmed, taking the total to 903, with 367 new cases reported
• NHS Louisa Jordan hospital is ready to open its doors, with 300 beds operational at the temporary facility in Glasgow
• The Scottish government has not been consulted on a reported three-step process to relieve lockdown measures, nor would it endorse
• The Scottish government says that later this week it will publish its initial thinking on the decision-making process over relaxing restriction
• Faulty face masks were withdrawn from ambulance staff last week, with replacements issued - A plane carrying new equipment for the NHS - including 10 million face masks - landed in Scotland from China at the weekend.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the latest developments around the coronavirus crisis in Scotland as we enter a fifth week of lockdown.

We'll keep you up-to-date with everything including the latest Scottish government briefing from Edinburgh at lunchtime.

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