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BBC Scotland's Glenn Campbell asks if the Leicester lockdown reassures the first minister that the UK government is committed to tackling coronavirus.

Ms Sturgeon says we are likely to see localised outbreaks like the one in Leicester and she welcomed the action that had been taken to contain it.

She added it would not be until weeks down the line before it would be clear if the actions taken were sufficient.

"We will all find ourselves in these positions I'm sure in the weeks and months to come", she added.

It was not what she wanted for the country to go into cycles of local lockdowns.

"The further we can suppress the virus - hopefully to the point of elimination - the more able we will be to keep localised outbreaks or clusters associated with particular facilities under control in a much more targeted and less restrictive way", she said.

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Chief Nursing Officer Fiona McQueen stresses that hospitals are continuing to deliver care safely as they prepare to reopen services.

But she says: "This is not about getting back to normal. What we have done over the past 100 days is learn how to live with the virus."

Imploring people to stick to government guidance, Ms McQueen explains that Covid-19 is not like a thunder storm - when you see it has stopped raining and it's safe to go out.

Staff will all continue to wear appropriate PPE and great care will be taken to keep Covid patients separate from non-Covid patients.

"Things will be significantly different in our hospitals for some time to come," says Ms McQueen. "We are asking you to play your part in the way we are delivering our NHS."

The health secretary says that, although visits to non-Covid hospital wards are being extended, visitors are required to abide by safety rules.

They must wear a mask, abide by hand hygiene and social-distancing rules and not attend if they have symptoms themselves.

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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman points out that she recently announced a relaxation of rules over visiting in care homes and now she turns to hospitals.

"Today, I am pleased to confirm that we are able to now allow visiting to non-Covid areas of hospitals to resume safely and on a phased basis from 13 July," she says.

"From that date, patients in non-Covid areas will be able to have a visit from one named visitor, with visits agreed in advance through the ward they are visiting.

"This is in addition to essential visits that have already been held during the pandemic - end of life, to accompany children, to support women during childbirth and for people with mental health issues, dementia, autism or learning disabilities where not having a visitor will cause stress or distress.

"For patients in Covid-19 wards, only essential visits will continue to be allowed."

"Do not drift back to life as normal," continues the first minister. "Please make sure you are doing everything you can every single day to deny the virus the chance to spread."

She ends her opening remarks with a reminder of the five pieces of advice in FACTS: They are:

·Face coverings in enclosed spaces

·Avoid crowded places

·Clean hands and surfaces regularly

·Two-metre distancing; and

·Self-isolate and book a test if you have symptoms

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The first minister warns that the pandemic is actually speeding up across the globe and is "not yet close to being over".

She points to the current flare-up in Leicester and the reinstatement of lockdowns in other parts of the world.

"This is a very loud reminder that the virus has not gone away," says Ms Sturgeon.

She says there is a real danger that people may let down their guards as the nation slowly opens up again.

"We still have to work very hard to make sure progress is not lost," adds the first minister. "The virus will come back hard, if we let it."

She then says localised outbreaks are almost inevitable in the future and that the Scottish government may be forced to take some "really tough and unpopular decisions" in the weeks ahead.

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The first minister continues: "I believe we have a genuine chance to come as close as it is to get to eliminating this virus in Scotland

"Of course we will then have to work to make sure we keep it at those levels.

"If we get to that level, it gives us the best possible chance of seeing more of our friends and opening up the economy and our schools."

Nicola Sturgeon marks the 100th day of lockdown and looks at "how far we have come".

"When it started, Covid was starting to run out of control in Scotland," the first minister says.

"Because of that, for the two weeks after the start of lockdown in early April, hospital admissions for the virus averaged over 200 every day.

"Two weeks after that, Covid deaths going by the wider National Records of Scotland data were averaging more than 90 every day.

"To be in our current position, with hospital admissions averaging just four a day, with consistently low numbers of new cases, and with such a sharp reduction in death rates, all of that is massive and very welcome progress."

The first minister points out that: "On this day last week, I announced four deaths, which took the total for the previous week to 23.

"The three deaths I've announced today take that seven-day total to nine.

"So that is a sustained, significant and ongoing reduction."

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says an additional 10 positive cases of Covid-19 were confirmed yesterday, taking the total to 18,251 confirmed cases.

A total of 885 patients are currently in hospital with the virus, confirmed or suspected, an increase of 145 from yesterday - although the number of confirmed cases in hospital has fallen by three.

A total of 19 people last night were in ICUs, nine more than yesterday, but again the additional numbers are all with suspected cases.

Since 5 March, a total of 4,061 patients who had tested positive have now been able to leave hospital.

In the past 24 hours, three deaths were registered of a patient confirmed through a test as having Covid-19, which takes the total by that measurement to 2,485.

That comes after four successive days of no deaths.

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Nicola Sturgeon will lead the Scottish government's daily coronavirus briefing from 12.30pm.

The first minister will be joined today by:

• Health Secretary Jeane Freeman
• Chief Nursing Officer Fiona McQueen

Stay with us to watch or listen to the briefing and for in-depth reports and analysis.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

The prime minister loves a big, historical comparison.

He is a keen student of Winston Churchill - and has even written a book about him.

Over the last few days, the comparisons the government has sought to draw have been with former American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his "New Deal."

As my colleagues at Reality Check point out, the plan set out today is a tiddler compared to what FDR did, and a fair chunk of it is re-announcing what we already knew the government was planning.

But Boris Johnson is attempting to set out in a broader context the government's vision - and his pride in saying he wants to spend a lot to revitalise the economy and haul it out of the doldrums.

The SNP is criticising the UK prime minister's announcement as a "failure of ambition" that "completely ignores Scotland's needs".

Earlier, Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said there needed to be an investment of £80bn for a post-Covid recovery.

The SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, reiterates the call from his boss, saying more financial powers needed to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament.

"The Tories are putting Scotland's recovery at risk," he says. "Yet again, Boris Johnson has fallen woefully short on his promises with this failure of ambition that completely ignores Scotland's needs.

"This recycled money falls far short of the huge investment that the UK requires to secure a strong recovery and it pales in comparison to the bold action being taken in other countries.

“The pandemic has caused an unprecedented economic crisis – and that must be met with an unprecedented response."

David Cowan
BBC Scotland

An Edinburgh Unviersity study has suggested between 7,000 and 40,000 people could have died from coronavirus in Scotland if the country had not gone into lockdown.

Scientists have tried to estimate would have happened if Scotland had copied the approach taken in Sweden, where a lockdown was not imposed.

The country has a population of over 10 million and has suffered more than 5,200 deaths from Covid-19.

Scotland's death toll per head of population has been higher.

With a population of 5.46 million here, there have been 4,119 deaths linked to the virus.

Read more here.

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The prime minister promises to dual the A1 connecting Scotland and England as part of what he describes as "an infrastructure revolution" that will improve connections between the four nations in the United Kingdom.

"We will carry out a study of all future road, rail, air and cross-sea links between all four parts of the UK," the Prime Minister says.

"When did a government first promise to dual the A1 to Scotland? I'll tell you, it was 1992, but we are going to get on and do it."

Mr Johnson wants to build on the four-nation approach that he believes has shown its worth during the current pandemic.

"Sometimes people have played up the legitimate variations in response between the devolved administrations, but when you look at the whole effort, you can see the absolutely vital role of that union and that partnership," he adds.

"We will build and rebuild those vital connections between every part of the UK because now is the moment to strengthen that incredible partnership between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."

Mornings with Kaye Adams
BBC Radio Scotland

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The most read story on the BBC website this morning concerns the discovery of a new strain of flu virus in China with 'pandemic potential'.

It is carried by pigs and can infect humans, say researchers.

However, 'Naked Scientist' Dr Chris Smith insists current conditions around the globe will make it harder for viruses to spread in the same way Covid-19 has.

"There are lots of flu viruses and this is just one example," he told BBC Radio Scotland. "I'm reassured by the fact that we know about this and the surveillance has been vigilant.

"People are the main vectors for viruses - air travel was the main route for the spread of coronavirus.

"We are still on high alert, with lockdown in many countries, so opportunities being afforded to viruses to spread internationally are obviously much diminished."

Dr Smith from Cambridge University does warn that conditions will change the more we open up again and says scientists are keeping a close eye on Australia and New Zealand where it will soon be the traditional flu season.

Chris Morris
BBC Reality Check

Boris Johnson has repeated a commitment to plant over 75,000 acres of trees (about 30,000 hectares) every year by 2025.

But Conservative-led governments over the past decade have consistently fallen short of targets for tree-planting set out in their election manifestos.

Tree-planting is a devolved issue in the UK, but England’s tree-planting record is particularly poor compared with other European countries.

Government funding, external and support saw about 3.6 million trees newly planted in England in the two years from 2017 to 2019, covering an area of about 2,300 hectares.

That figure does not include trees planted to replace others that have been cut down.

In the same period, Scotland planted, external 18,300 hectares - including 84% of all the new trees planted in the UK in 2018-19.

As for Mr Johnson’s overall comparisons with former American president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, in the 1930s Roosevelt established a Civilian Conservation Corps of hundreds of thousands of unemployed young men (women were not allowed to join).

More than three billion trees were planted across the country by the end of the decade – an achievement that outstrips anything the government is promising to do.

It wasn't just shopping that returned in earnest yesterday. Here's the full detail of what returned in Scotland on Monday:

• Stores of all sizes are now able to reopen - but only if they have outdoor entrances and exits. Indoor shopping centres must remain closed for now, except where they contain essential shops
• Factories, laboratories and warehouses are also able to reopen - subject to strict physical distancing, hygiene and health and safety guidance
• Businesses are being advised to arrange staggered work times for their staff, agree flexible working where possible, and ensure that it is safe for their employees to get to work

• Outdoor markets have reopened, as have outdoor sports courts and playgrounds.

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• Zoos and garden attractions are also able to open again, although you should not travel more than five miles for leisure - and tickets should be bought in advance.
• Restrictions on moving house were lifted
• Marriages and civil partnerships are now allowed outdoors, with limited numbers, and registration offices reopened for essential business.

Easing lockdown rules in Scotland: Click here to find out what will change next - and when.