Summary

  • As of Monday at 9am, there have been 1,262 deaths of people with Covid-19 in Scottish hospitals - up 13 on yesterday

  • PM Boris Johnson returns to work and makes an address outside 10 Downing Street

  • He asks the public to "contain your impatience" as the country comes out of its first phase "of this conflict, and we have so nearly succeeded"

  • Research by BBC Scotland has found that thousands of vulnerable people have lost homecare packages during the lockdown

  • Five military-staffed mobile testing units will be operational in Scotland from this week

  • Health secretary Jeane Freeman says a labelling issue on PPE stuck at Prestwick Airport after being flown in from China will be resolved this week

Live Reporting

BBC Scotland News

  1. Do you accept you have been too slow on testing?

    Good Morning Scotland
    BBC Radio Scotland

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    Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman was asked on BBC Good Morning Scotland if the country has been too slow on testing.

    Host Gary Robertson highlighted the advice of the World Health Organisation from the outset and the approach of countries such as Germany and South Korea.

    Ms Freeman said at the start of the pandemic Scotland had three labs that could test 350 samples a day.

    In a short space of time that capacity has been increased to 3,500 tests a day.

    But the health secretary acknowledged the UK response will come under intense scrutiny when the country returns to some sort of normality.

    Undoubtedly when we are eventually through this pandemic there will be questions and an inquiry looking at all the decisions that all the governments in the UK took and whether or not, at the time with what they had in front of them, those were the right decisions.

    Jeane Freeman, Scottish Health Secretary

  2. Could contact tracing have kept the number of deaths down?

    Good Morning Scotland
    BBC Radio Scotland

    It is very difficult to look with retrospect but certainly it is the case in the UK that we have not followed the path that other countries did, particularly in South East Asia, which is to have massive infrastructure established earlier on.

    Prof Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University

  3. Antigen tests 'key to easing lockdown'

    Good Morning Scotland
    BBC Radio Scotland

    Professor of Public Health Linda Bauld told Good Morning Scotland is vital to establish how many cases of Covid-19 there are in the population.

    Antigen tests will show if someone has had the virus and she told the programme these are critical in order to ease the current lockdown.

    She also described the UK's initial approach to testing as "chaotic".

    The problem is if we started to release, that gradually infection rates could go up again so we need to know how many people have it in the population and key workers. The only way we are going to know that is if we test and if we test more than we are now."

    Prof Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at Edinburgh University

  4. Should island communities have their own lockdown exit strategy?

    John Johnston
    BBC Scotland

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    Shetland was a hotspot for Covid-19 cases in the early days of the pandemic.

    The situation has now stabilised and the islands have new testing equipment, capable of giving results in about an hour.

    The ability to carry out testing in Shetland gives it the opportunity to move away from delay, to a containment strategy.

    Some 200 miles north, the Faroe Islands have already adopted a mass testing response, and are starting to emerge slowly from their lockdown.

    Public health expert Prof Allyson Pollock from Newcastle University says the pandemic should not be seen as one big UK-wide outbreak, but as a series of smaller localised ones

    She thinks relatively small populations like Shetland should quickly adopt a contact tracing strategy to "snuff out" the disease.

  5. Ian Murray: 'Three big criticisms'

    Good Morning Scotland
    BBC Radio Scotland

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    Both governments should have moved faster into lockdown, they should have been faster to provide the PPE required and they should have been much faster in terms of ramping up testing.That is the three big criticisms and it's not just criticisms coming from politicians. These are the concerns within the community.

    Ian Murray MP, Shadow Scottish Secretary

  6. PM returns to Downing Street after illness

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    Boris Johnson has returned to Downing Street to take charge of the UK's response to the coronavirus outbreak.

    The PM will chair the regular morning cabinet meeting on Covid-19 before holding talks with senior ministers and officials.

    It is a month since Mr Johnson was diagnosed with the virus.

    He spent a week in St Thomas' Hospital in central London, including three nights in intensive care,after being admitted on 5 April.

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  7. 'We are just not testing enough people'

    Good Morning Scotland
    BBC Radio Scotland

    Shadow Scottish Secretary Ian Murray told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland that Covid-19 testing in Scotland is "still far too low".

    The Edinburgh South MP said testing in Scotland was also low in international comparisons and claimed only 1,400 were carried out on Sunday.

    He said: "These kinds of numbers are far too low and we need to look at whether we need to test much more of the population.

    "We certainly need to be testing much more of the population who are at the epicentre in local communities, which is our care homes.

    "To only be testing about 9 in every 1,000 people is not enough to be able to input an exit strategy of tracing and of testing the vast majority of the population.

    "We have got to get up to these big numbers."

  8. Army Covid test centres and 'twenty years of pain'

    The introduction of military-run coronavirus test centres and dire predictions about what the fallout from the pandemic will do to the economy make the front pages.

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    Several of the papers report a "hint" from the first minister that she might close the border with England if that was required to control the virus.

    However, Nicola Sturgeon insisted she would not take a different part "for the sake of it".

    Read our full round-up of Scotland's papers here

  9. 'I don't really think I'm living at all'

    Fern Adams

    Fern Adams is one of thousands of Scots who have lost their home-care support during the coronavirus crisis.

    The 26-year-old from Clydebank has a number of complex medical conditions that cause her pain and fatigue, and affect her ability to stand up.

    She was forced to move back into her mother's home in Oban, which is not set up for her needs, and had to leave her electric wheelchair behind.

    I don't really feel I'm living at all. It's kind of just getting through the basics of being alive from day-to-day, and that's it.

    Fern Adams

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  10. A reminder of some of Sunday's headlines

    • Five military-staffed mobile testing units will be operational in Scotland this week, with a further eight soon after that.

    • Nicola Sturgeon says she is prepared to take a different path to the rest of the UK over easing lockdown measures if necessary but will not be doing anything different "for the sake of it".

    • There have been another 18 deaths from Covid-19 in Scottish hospitals, bringing the tally - by that measure - to 1,249.

    • Health secretary Jeane Freeman says a labelling issue on PPE stuck at Prestwick Airport after being flown in from China will be resolved this week.

    • More than 22,000 former staff and students have volunteered to join or rejoin the health or social care services in Scotland.

  11. Welcome to our live coverage on week six of lockdown

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