Topical questions at the Scottish Parliament is about to begin.

MSPs will ask Scottish government ministers:

• more about the fall-out from the outbreak at the Nike conference in Edinburgh
• about tensions between UK and Scottish advice to companies
• the reopening of schools
• and a query on recycling

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Chris Musson from The Sun asks if the main reason care home staff have not been routinely tested until now was a capacity issue? He also wonders if the first minster regrets allowing possibly infected hospital patients to be discharged into care homes.

The first minister replies: “I regret every single person who has died over this.”

We have to balance learning from mistakes with continuing to focus on decisions ahead of us, she adds.

On testing, Ms Sturgeon says the government has always been clear about building capacity. She adds that for older and frail people there must also be a clinical consideration behind any decision.

Dr Smith highlights new evidence suggesting asymptomatic spread is a concern. For a long time we did not know how much of an impact asymptomatic spread had.

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Tom Peterkin from The Press & Journal says the owner of a Peterhead care home is still declining to give the number of deaths from Covid-19 and says there have been suggestions that other operators in the north east are not being totally transparent.

Barchester Healthcare said some people at Kirkburn Court in Peterhead had "tragically" died. However, it is not known how many residents have lost their lives.

Ms Sturgeon says she will look into the issue and emphasises the importance of transparency around deaths.

She highlights the NRS report tomorrow will give the overall number of deaths in care homes, though she accepts it does not break down the numbers by care home.

Mure Dickie, from the Financial Times, realises that the first minister has made it clear she is "happy with the public health management of the Nike conference" incident, but he wonders if there has been an internal review of that management and if she is ruling out an independent review.

Nicola Sturgeon says: "I am not ruling anything out and I recognise the need for public assurance around all of this."

Severin Carrell from the Guardian asks if there has been an independent review internally of the Nike outbreak and, if not, why has an external independent review been carried out?

The first minister says she recognises people may take a different view as to the importance of patient confidentiality at that point but says she is not saying there are not legitimate criticisms about the public health management.

The incident management team does operate independently she points out.

Michael Blackley from the Daily Mail asks if the first minister has concerns about a "job catastrophe" in this quarter, as she appears to be falling short of adopting Boris Johnson’s "go back to work if you can’t work from home" message.

However, the progress in suppressing the virus must not be jeapordised or we will be back in full lockdown, she adds.

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Neil Pooran from PA returns to the Nike conference outbreak and says Prof Hugh Pennington has called for reports around it to be released.

The first minister says she is sure the incident management team will publish the report in due course.

She points out a number of different countries were involved in the contact tracing making it more complex.

Ms Sturgeon says the government is considering identifying clusters of outbreaks as part of the Test, Trace and Isolate strategy.

She stresses again the consideration of patient confidentiality at the start of the outbreak may be a bigger factor, due to the small number of cases.

Jack Foster from Global says his organisation has published a number of "shocking" claims from care home whistleblowers. They include claims a staff member at an HC-One residential home in the West of Scotland who reported elderly patients with Covid-19 being allowed to mingle with other residents.

He asks how concerned the first minister is about these concerns.

Ms Sturgeon says she has heard some of the claims and that they are a matter of "very significant concern".

The first minister says care home providers have a principle responsibility to make sure the guidance for their homes is followed.

“I have huge concern if I hear that is not the case.”

She points out the Care Inspectorate is carrying out unannounced inspections of care homes and where failings are identified, action will be taken and highlights the legislative action that is being taken at the Scottish Parliament this week.

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Alan Smith from Bauer raises concerns about children presenting with Covid-19 antibodies and symptoms similar to Kawaski disease.

Mr Smith asks if there are any cases in Scotland and what the advice should be to parents?

The first minister says this is an issue of concern that is being monitored very carefully and the government is looking at the international experience and evidence.

Dr Gregor Smith says he is not aware of any active cases in Scotland just now.

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Peter MacMahon, ITV Border, asks about the announcement by Ovo Energy that it plans to shed 2,600 jobs, with up to 400 in Selkirk. He asks if there anything the Scottish government can do to try to stop that and if it is considering following the advice of a think tank that suggests a lump sum of £250 per child could be paid this summer.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she is not going to make promises until she can be sure she can deliver on them - and also the affordability of them.

She points out that Scotland is already introducing a child supplement in an attempt to tackle child poverty

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Channel 4 news reporter Ciaran Jenkins claims "a lot of key data about hospital discharges to care homes is not published" and asks that, in interests of transparency, if the media could be given answers about how many were discharged from hospitals to care homes in March and April.

He also asks whether these patients were put into care homes with or without a test and how many hospital discharge care home beds the Scottish government approved or agreed to finance.

He asks the first minister if it was a mistake to allow hospitals to discharge patients to care homes before the introduction of proper testing.

Nicola Sturgeon responds by saying the Scottish government had to deal with making sure it had the capacity to deal with what could have been "a much more significant surge in demand for hospital services".

The first minister adds that the government is trying to publish as much data as possible on the issue.

Ewan Petrie from STV asks the first minister to respond to a joint letter from trade unions, care homes and nurses which says there has been insufficient cooperation between the UK and Scottish governments. The letter questions whether that lack of cooperation is harming efforts to increase testing and calls for testing to be rolled out to all residents of care homes.

Nicola Sturgeon says Health Secretary Jeane Freeman will be making a statement in the Scottish parliament shortly on the issue.

The first minister adds that there are issues about the "evasiveness" of the Covid-19 test on elderly residents.

Ms Sturgeon says she is told that there would "not be much clinical benefit" in doing a "one-off" test of all residents.

She adds that there is "good cooperation" between the different nations of the UK, including over testing, but points out there are "good reasons" for slightly different decisions about testing and easing lockdowns.

James Matthews, from Sky, says three tour guides were in contact with delegates at the Nike conference and that 20 Lloyds banking staff shared the same facilities. He wonders, in the light of that, how the first minister can defend not making the outbreak public.

Nicola Sturgeon replies that these are genuine concerns but reiterates that there were only a handful of cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Scotland at the time and there were only 10 people from Scotland involved at the conference.

She says that some will argue that patient confidentiality should not have been a consideration but stresses that "it is not a made up consideration".

Ms Sturgeon believes that the public health professionals involved would have contacted more people had they felt there was a need to do so.

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At least 25 people linked to the Nike event in Edinburgh may have contracted the virus but people who shared facilities with delegates were not told.

BBC Scotland has been told that staff from Lloyds Banking Group were among those who shared facilities with Nike delegates.

A total of 20 Lloyds employees were in the same hotel on the same day but were not told about the outbreak and were not offered testing.

This comes after The Mail on Sunday, external reported that staff at two other firms fell ill after coming into contact with Nike delegates.

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Nicola Sturgeon says she understands the concerns raised about this conference but points out there is a difference between the public health management of a situation and what information is put in the public domain.

She says, in a case like this, an incident management team was established - comprising of experienced public health professionals - to investigate and decide what follow-up was required. As part of that, an international contact tracing exercise was carried out.

That incident management team is tasked with doing everything it feels necessary to protect public health, she says.

The first minister adds the reason more information was not put into the public domain was down to patient confidentiality, as naming the event would have identified those who attended.

She says some might disagree with that decision but rejects the idea that there was a deliberate attempt to cover up the outbreak.

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BBC Scotland's David Wallace Lockhart says he has spoken to a tour guide who helped delegates at the Nike conference in February.

It later emerged that there was an outbreak of coronavirus at the conference before Scotland's first publicly confirmed case.

The tour guide says they were never contacted or told they had been exposed to someone involved in an outbreak of Covid-19.

Mr Lockhart says it is one of several such stories and wonders if the first minister still defends the Scottish government's response and wonders how many people were contact traced in response?

Interim chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith says the progress in tackling coronavirus is marked by acts of kindness - the theme of this year's Mental Health Awareness Week.

He says: "Thank you to my NHS and social care colleagues. We're all deeply thankful for their kindness."

The CMO points to various mental health support services for NHS staff during this pandemic, including the national wellbeing hub and bespoke online services.

To the public, he says by staying at home they are protecting the NHS and this simple act of kindness is saving lives.

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All parents and carers will be able to access this via the website Parentclub.Scot, external.

Clearyourhead.Scot , externalbrings together information to help with your mental health, she adds.

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The first minister references Mental Health Awareness Week and its theme of kindness, which she says is crucial in the current climate.

Nicola Sturgeon explains that NHS 24's telephone and online services have been expanded to support mental health.

She adds the Scottish government has established a National Wellbeing Hub to support the mental health of NHS and social care staff.

The Clear Your Head campaign provides practical advice to help people get through this crisis.