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The number of suspected Covid-19 cases in Scotland's adult care homes increased by 39 on the previous day according to statistics up until 7 May.

Overall, 470 (44%) homes have had at least one current case during the last 14 days.

Since the start of the epidemic, 609 (56%) homes have lodged at least one notification for suspected Covid-19 to the Care Inspectorate, with 431 of them having reported more than one case.

There have been 4,445 cumulative cases of suspected Covid-19 in Scotland's care homes.

This is the number of confirmed cases to date in each Scottish health board area, plus the number of people in hospital as of midnight, with the number in brackets those who are in intensive care.

• Ayrshire and Arran 904, 43 in hospital (7 in intensive care)
• Borders 286, 27 (*)
• Dumfries and Galloway 255, * (*)
• Fife 811, 82 (*)
• Forth Valley 828, 27 (*)
• Grampian 1050, 92 (10)
• Greater Glasgow and Clyde 3449, 492 (29)
• Highland 320, 9 (*)
• Lanarkshire 1660, 113 (7)
• Lothian 2359, 200 (11)
• Orkney 7 * *
• Shetland 54 * *
• Tayside 1497, 41 (*)
• Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) 6 * *

* = less than 5

Latest figures published by the Scottish government reveal that 13,486 people have tested positive for Covid-19, an increase of 181 from yesterday.

1,484 patients are in hospital with a suspected or confirmed case (down 101), with 82 being treated in intensive care (a decrease of seven).

A further 10 people who tested positive have died, taking the total in Scotland, by that measure, to 1,857 deaths.

3,100 people have been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for the virus since 5 March.

An alert system to rank the threat level of coronavirus is set to be launched by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his lockdown speech later, but it will only apply in England.

The government is working with the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as they develop their own.

The English system, which will use a scale of alerts ranging from green (level one) to red (level five), will be similar to the one used to keep the public informed about the terror threat level.

Mr Johnson is expected to say England is currently at stage four but moving towards stage three.

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Rangers are willing to pay for an independent investigation into the Scottish Professional Football League's ballot to end the lower-league season should clubs vote for one, the club's interim chairman, Douglas Park, has said.

Clubs will decide on the Glasgow club's resolution, which has the backing of Hearts and Stranraer, calling for an inquiry on Tuesday.

The SPFL urged clubs to reject the proposal in rebutting Rangers' dossier of evidence against them on Friday.

Hearts face relegation under current proposals and chair Ann Budge says the Edinburgh club "will be taking further advice" should they be "expelled" from the Scottish Premiership.

Lockdown "rather different in Wales" after PM's changes for England, Welsh minister says.

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Students who cannot take up places in purpose-built accommodation due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be able to end their lease under new legislation.

People under contract in halls of residence will be able to give seven days' notice to cancel their agreement.

Those who enter into a contract will also be given the power to give 28 days' notice.

Jeane Freeman was asked if it made any sense for a patient to be transferred from a hospital to a care home after they have been tested for Covid-19, but before they receive the results.

She told BBC Politics Scotland patients in such scenarios will already have had one negative test and will be barrier nursed for 14 days on arrival at a care home.

Ms Freeman said isolating and "good quality infection control" is "as critical as the test". She added: "One is not more important that the other."

The health secretary said the Scottish government will this week look at whether testing should be extended.

She also confirmed contact tracing has resumed and was undertaken at Home Farm care home on Skye, where six residents have diedafter a Covid-19 outbreak.

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The UK government wants the whole of the country - not just England - to adopt the new "stay alert" message in the fight against the novel coronavirus, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.

But, with Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, having already said she will be sticking to the "stay home, save lives" message, Mr Jenrick conceded that the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales can choose to take a different path if they wish to.

He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show it is the right time to "update and broaden" the message to the public because "we've passed the peak" of Covid-19 cases in the UK.

Mr Jenrick argued it is still "a cautious message because the rate of infection is still high".

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Jeane Freeman said the Scottish government must remain cautious about easing the lockdown restrictions too soon.

She told BBC Politics Scotland: "If we move too quickly and the progress goes into reverse and the virus is back out of control then the damage to the economy, at that point, is even worse than the damage that we are seeing at the moment."

The Scottish health secretary also said Covid-19 test results are coming back anytime between four and 48 hours, depending on where in the country a person has been tested.

She added it is hoped the maximum wait for results will soon be reduced to 12 hours.

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Jeane Freeman said government advice must be "consistent and clear" and stressed Stay At Home is "the right message".

She told BBC Politics Scotland that a decline in the number of cases, intensive care admissions and, for the first time, in the weekly death figures is encouraging. But Ms Freeman said the overall picture remains "too fragile".

The Scottish Health Secretary also said she will be guided by scientific and clinical advice.

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Jeane Freeman said the Scottish government was not consulted over the UK government's new Stay Alert slogan.

The Scottish health secretary also told BBC Politics Scotland programme she has "no idea" what it means.

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Prof Sian Griffiths said the UK government's public health messages must be kept "steady" and stressed the ongoing importance of people staying at home to prevent the spread of the virus.

She also emphasised the importance of reliable mass testing and said an antibody test will make coming out of lockdown easier.

But Prof Griffiths BBC Good Morning Scotland a vaccine could be "some months or even longer away".

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Prof Jason Leitch, national clinical director for the Scottish government, told BBC Breakfast it was up to leaders to make decisions but advice remained 'cautious'.

“The best protection for this virus is your front door – there isn’t any question about that," he said.

“Until the numbers are really low and we understand where it is and we can control outbreaks and we can do our test, trace, isolate systems across the four nations, we are still very cautious.

“I am not the decision-maker, I am one of the many advisers, so the advice is cautious.

“The decision-makers in the four countries will then make choices.”

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Prof Jason Leitch, national clinical director for the Scottish government, told BBC Breakfast he had could not explain the revised "stay alert" message from the prime minister.

“I can’t explain what it means, we haven’t seen it, we don’t know what the UK government is going to say for the response in England," he said.

“I can tell you that the first minister and I earlier in the week at one of our press briefings made it very clear that we think – certainly in Scotland – it is too early to think about any major changes.

“The first minister was quite clear that the key message remains stay at home and I then reiterated exactly that.

“We are in a very, very fragile moment."