Opposition leaders, including SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford,are to meet the prime minister today amid signs he's set to start lifting the coronavirus lockdown.

Boris Johnson is due to spell out details of his plan on Sunday.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already insisted distinct circumstances in Scotland must be taken into account.

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The health secretary confirms current stock levels of fluid-resistant face masks will last until November.

Jeane Freeman also says current hand sanitiser stocks will last until July - but she highlights successful efforts to create an entirely Scottish production and supply chain to boost this.

Several spirits producers have turned their focus to making hand sanitiser, including Verdant Spirits in Dundee.

The health secretary also says masks generally have been designed to fit male faces. Going forward, this issue will be logged to see if it can be addressed to ensure fewer mitigating measures need to be put in place due to masks not always fitting female staff correctly, she says.

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Dr Lamberton says there could be value at treating areas of the country in different ways.

She says that the lockdown could be eased earlier in more rural areas without the "catastrophic consequences" you might see if the same was done in a more densely-populated urban area.

But the academic said any changes to restrictions now needed to be "really minor" with clear cut guidelines so people understood how they were affected.

An FFP3 mask is a type of respirator mask - it prevents the wearer from inhaling particles. FFP3 is the most protective of these types of face masks, coming with a minimum filtration of 99%.

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The health secretary confirms 160 million items of PPE have been delivered since March. Of this:

• 117 million went to acute care
• 35.1 million to social care
• the rest to community care

As understanding of demand outwith health boards has improved, the government has improved distribution lines and stepped in where private and local authority routes have failed she adds.

Ms Freeman confirms the government is continuing to look at PPE for unpaid carers and personal assistants, with 66,000 items having been distributed since the weekend.

Business offers of PPE have been welcome and have supplemented usual distribution routes in some areas, though each offer is checked to ensure it is not fraudulent or overpriced she tells MSPs.

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Dr Poppy Lamberton, a global health specialist at the University of Glasgow, says she thinks it would be "premature" to begin easing the lockdown restrictions.

She told Kaye Adams that although the economy and poverty also have long-term effects on health outcomes, the Covid-19 epidemic needed to be brought further under control.

Dr Lamberton said infection rates needed to be lower to give the NHS some "wiggle room" when the second wave of the outbreak arrived.

"We're likely to have a second wave but we want it to be controlled," she said.

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Some businesses, like those in construction, want the Scottish and UK governments to lift coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the same way at the same time.

Some construction sites in England returned to work this week, but Archie Meikle, boss of Livingston-based building firm Ashwood, says different cross-border policies are "extremely concerning" and "exceptionally dangerous".

He told Good Morning Scotland it could create a "transient" workforce - essentially people travelling south from Scotland to work on building sites - which could spread coronavirus even more.

Mr Meikle added that Scottish building companies could get back to work withing a few weeks if needed.

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Lily Burns spent a week in intensive care fighting coronavirus and thought she was going to die.

The 21-year-old, who had no underlying health conditions, is now recovering at home after weeks in hospital.

She said she believes it’s a “miracle” that she’s still alive and puts it down to the work of NHS staff at Raigmore Hospital.

She had first gone into hospital with a suspected kidney infection but after an initial negative test, later tested positive for Covid-19.

"The covid attacked all my internal organs, my heart, my liver, my kidneys," she said."

She spent a week on a ventilator under sedation.

"I would advise everyone to stick to the restrictions because after what my family went through, I wouldn't want to put anyone else through that," she said.

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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman will shortly meet with the health committee virtually this morning as it continues its Covid-19 inquiry.

Its focus this morning will largely be on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

• 'Shortages' in supplies of hospital protective equipment
• Has the NHS got enough PPE?
• Gowns ordered from Turkey fail to meet safety standards

We'll stream the committee until 10.20am, when we will switch to the Covid-19 Committee. If you want to continue watching the Health Committee sessinon please go to Scottish Parliament TV, external.

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Daily Record owner Reach says it had 42 million online users across its UK outlets in March and 1.7 billion page views in April.

The publisher, which also owns the Express and Mirror newspapers, says there's been unprecedented demand for Coronavirus news.

But the crisis is also causing problems for Reach, which says print revenues are down 15.8% so far this year, with lockdown hitting circulations and advertising.

The company's digital revenue grew by 4.7% - not enough to fill the gap, but Reach says its balance sheet and cost-saving strategy put it in a good position to weather the storm for now.

It's all about the lockdown today - both here in Scotland and across the UK.

No change to the restrictions are expected to be announced by Nicola Sturgeon today.

However Boris Johnson is expected to announce some changes this coming Sunday and he meets with opposition leaders in private this lunchtime.

Here’s the public political agenda in terms of the response to the coronavirus pandemic:

• 0930: Virtual health committee Covid-19 evidence session with Jeane Freeman on PPE
• 1030: Virtual Covid19 Committee with Harry Burns and Linda Bauld
• 1230: Scottish government coronavirus media briefing
• 1330: Covid-19 Virtual Question Time: Rural Economy and Tourism
• 1415: Covid-19 Virtual Question Time: Health
• 1700: UK government coronavirus media briefing

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The front pages report that Boris Johnson plans to scrap stay at home advice but Nicola Sturgeon says it's too soon.

Most of the papers report that Boris Johnson could begin easing restrictions from Monday but say Nicola Sturgeon insists that Scotland isn’t ready.

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Mr Blackford is asked if the public should be given "some leeway" after weeks of sticking to tough lockdown advice.

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Mr Blackford is asked about an apparent increase in the numbers of people spending more time out of their homes, and of the dangers of "mixed messages" regarding lockdown advice coming from the UK and Scottish governments.

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The SNP's leader at Westminister renews his call for the Brexit transition period to be extended in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Mr Blackford says he doesn't want different parts of the UK pulling in different directions, but that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's responsibility is to the people of Scotland.

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The SNP's Westminster leader says the prime minister should be making statements about easing the lockdown to parliament and not the Sunday newspapers, which he says have been briefed on future plans.

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Mr Blackford is speaking to Good Morning Scotland from his home on Skye, where the coronavirus has killed a number of residents at a care home.

Five residents have now died at Home Farm care home in Portree after contracting Covid-19.