Here are some of the day's key developments:

• The UK scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus will be extended to October
• Chancellor Rishi Sunak says from August companies will have to start sharing the cost of the scheme
• Nicola Sturgeon urged Scottish companies not to call staff back to work early while the coronavirus lockdown remains in place.
• The first minister strongly rejected any suggestion of a "cover-up" after a BBC Disclosure documentary revealed that Covid-19 arrived in Scotland when a Nike conference was held in Edinburgh in late February - a week before the first confirmed Scottish case in Tayside.
• SPFL clubs rejected an independent investigation into April's vote to end the lower-league season in Scotland.
• A further 50 people have died after testing positive for coronavirus, taking the Scottish total to 1, 912.

We'll be back early tomorrow with live updates, including the weekly release of National Records of Scotland figures which give a fuller picture of Covid-19 deaths.

Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary has described quarantine rules as "idiotic" as he announced plans to restart flights from July.

The budget airline boss told BBC Breakfast the firm would look to sell all of the seats on its flights, but would put in place temperature checks and face masks for passengers and crews.

He said: "In fact the government has already recommended where social distancing isn't possible, wear face masks - that is the effective measure against the spread of Covid-19, not ineffective measures like a 14-day quarantine which no one will observe anyway."

Mr O'Leary disputed that the quarantine was science-based, due to French and Irish travellers being exempt.

Ryanair has announced today that it plans to restart 40% of its flights, almost 1,000 a day, from 1 July, subject to restrictions being lifted in the EU.

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Artists and makers are to take part in a virtual Spring Fling festival next week.

The annual event, normally held in Dumfries and Galloway, was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But organisers have announced a programme of digital activities will go ahead, ranging from virtual tours of studies to online workshops.

SF At Home , externalwill begin on Monday 18 May.

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Police have warned drivers to think of the added pressure they could be putting on the NHS before hitting the accelerator after the bank holiday weekend saw multiple people caught going over 100mph.

A 27-year-old man was charged after being clocked at 119mph on the A90 near Blackdog in Aberdeenshire on Saturday.

A total of 12 men were caught driving between 93mph and 111mph on the M876 near Larbert over the three days.

Elsewhere, a 21-year-old man was detected at 103mph on the M8 near Eurocentral on Sunday and a 29-year-old man was caught doing 101mph on a 60mph road near Ellon in Aberdeenshire on Monday.

Ch Sup Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland said: "Speeding increases your risk of being involved in a collision. "With the current challenges facing us just now, we need to protect the NHS and save lives, therefore, drivers need to be more cautious."

SPFL clubs have rejected an independent investigation into April's vote to end the lower-league season in Scotland.

Rangers, backed by Hearts and Stranraer, called Tuesday's EGM and the support of 32 of the 42 clubs was needed for the resolution to pass.

Thirteen clubs backed an investigation, 27 were against and two abstained.

SPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan said the game could not afford "the distraction of further infighting or legal challenges".

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Police officers in Scotland have been told they can be tested for coronavirus if they believe an attack has put them at risk.

Community safety minister Ash Denham said there is "no barrier to accessing testing", though officers will first have to contact Police Scotland's HR department to determine if checking them is "appropriate".

Tory MSP Alexander Stewart pressed her on the issue in Holyrood, saying "unfortunately some officers report being spat at and coughed at in a disgusting attempt to spread coronavirus".

Ms Denham said when officers have such a Covid-19 "interaction" the force can "offer facilities for an assessment and where appropriate a test".

She said they do not have to have developed symptoms.

It comes on the same day an Inverness man was jailed for coughing in officers' faces.

Reevel Alderson
BBC Scotland Home Affairs correspondent

Trials already under way when the lockdown was imposed - including the case against former first minister Alex Salmond - continued, but all others have been postponed until it's safe for them to go ahead.

But with the huge, and growing backlog of cases, a short-term working group has now been established to come up with solutions.

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To meet social distancing requirements, they'll look at changing court layouts, new technology, and whether jury sizes could be reduced.

The group, which includes judges, senior lawyers and victims' organisations will also consider what legislative changes might be needed. Some court cases not requiring juries are continuing, using video technology.

The Scottish government has provided a detailed timeline of events surrounding an outbreak of coronavirus at a Nike conference in Edinburgh in February.

Details of the outbreak at the conference in the Hilton Carlton Hotel were revealed by a BBC Disclosure documentary that was broadcast on Monday.

The investigation discovered that Covid-19 had been brought to Scotland a week before the country's first confirmed case, in Tayside, was revealed on 1 March.

In her daily briefing on Tuesday Nicola Sturgeon strongly rejected any suggestion of a "cover-up" over the outbreak.

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A Scottish government spokesman said:

• On Monday 2 March, Health Protection Scotland (HPS) were alerted by international public health authorities that one of the 70 delegates at the conference had tested positive for Covid-19 after returning to their home country
• HPS set up an Incident Management Team to ensure all attendees were contacted and given appropriate public health advice including self-isolation and contact tracing.
• On Tuesday 3 March HPS were notified that an individual in Scotland connected to the conference had tested positive. Scottish government ministers were informed that same evening.
• On Wednesday 4 March, this case was confirmed in a Scottish government press release, in line with standard reporting procedures for confirmed Covid-19 cases at the time.
• All individuals who had attended the conference were contact traced. The close contacts of cases in Scotland were also traced
• All of the eight cases in Scotland associated with the event were included in the daily updates of positive case numbers and their contacts were traced. Only one case was identified in Lothian.

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.

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BBC Radio Scotland

A UK government minister apologises for the lives lost during the coronavirus pandemic.

Douglas Ross says on Drivetime with John Beattie: "I apologise to everyone who has been let down in any way by their respective governments."

He says every government around the world will have made mistakes which have and will cost lives, but it is important every effort is made to learn lessons to minimise deaths going forward.

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It follows a study suggesting more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if Scotland had locked down two weeks earlier.

The Scotland Office minister also discussed the extension of the furlough scheme with John Beattie. He said neither government was anticipating Scotland would "follow a vastly different path" in terms of businesses reopening.

He confirmed that if a company in England has all its employees back working full time in August but a similar Scottish company has not, the latter will still be able to make use of the furlough scheme.

Drivetime with John Beattie
BBC Radio Scotland

FInance Secretary Kate Forbes says the extension to the furlough scheme announced by the UK government was in line with what she was asking for last week.

She says: "The key for me is to ensure that the furlough scheme works for Scotland and that it continues for as long as businesses are being asked in Scotland to remain closed.

"Certainly this announcement is very welcome in that regard."

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BBC Radio Scotland

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Finance Secretary Kate Forbes says her initial reaction to the UK chancellor's latest extension to the furlough scheme is to welcome it.

The UK scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus will be extended to October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.

Ms Forbes says the scheme has played a "critical" role in enabling businesses to keep staff on and avoid redundancy.

She also welcomes the flexibility within the scheme which will "hopefully" enable businesses in Scotland to continue to follow guidance from the Scottish government rather than the different advice from the UK government.

The finance secretary says the "devil would be in the details".

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Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that "all appropriate steps were taken" over a coronavirus outbreak at a Nike conference in Edinburgh in February.

At least 25 people linked to the event on 26 and 27 February are thought to have contracted the virus.

But the public was not told despite health authorities knowing about the outbreak within days.

Ms Sturgeon said any suggestion of a cover-up was "complete and utter nonsense".

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The number of people who have died because of Covid-19 is nearly twice as high as the figure we hear announced every day.

By 1 May, the number of coronavirus deaths announced by the UK government was just over 28,000.

Looking back at death registrations filed then, the figure is higher: just under 36,000 death certificates mentioned Covid-19.

The measure preferred by statisticians, counting all deaths above what would be expected, was even higher: more than 50,000.

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Drivetime with John Beattie
BBC Radio Scotland

The scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus has been extended to the end of October.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed today that employees will continue to receive 80% of their monthly wages up to £2,500.

Drivetime will hear the reaction to the extension of he scheme from Scotland's Finance Secretary Kate Forbes in just over 10 minutes.

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BBC Parliaments

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The Scottish government's been defending its approach to tackling the coronavirus.

In the Holyrood debate, the Scottish Conservatives have challenged ministers in Edinburgh on why they took different stance from their counterparts in England.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney said the Scottish government is considering specific options for easing the lockdown, but any changes will need to be founded in science.