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The UK government last week published a full list of countries for which quarantine will not apply to people arriving back in England.

Countries including Greece, Spain, France and Belgium are on the list, external, which comes into effect from 10 July.

But countries such as China, US, Sweden and Portugal are not, meaning arrivals from those have to isolate for 14 days.

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The first minister says some amber countries have a prevalence rate lower than Scotland, but some like Spain have a far higher prevalence.

It's more than 10 times greater than Scotland.

The UK's four CMO's have agreed to look at risk and more targetted assessments for different countries should be available in the future.

She confirms that from 10 July if you are travelling to Scotland from any of the 39 places the UK government has rated as green, you will not have to self-isolate on arrival in Scotland.

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Ms Sturgeon points out that to move to phase 3, the WHO demands the risk of importing or exporting cases must be managed.

She accepts international travel is important for the tourist sector and the aviation industry, which is why these decisions are difficult.

The first minister says the UK government list of 59 countries and territories, external which would no longer face quarantine restrictions.

There are 39 countries that are low risk in the green category she says, with 20 in the amber group.

She says Scotland has a low prevalence of the virus; for every 100,000 people in Scotland, 28 have Covid. That's a prevalence of 0.028%.

The prize of eliminating the virus in Scotland is "clearly attainable".

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The chancellor now announces "a new jobs retention bonus".

He tells MPs that if you are an employer and you bring some back who was furloughed and you continue to employ them to January the government will pay you a £1000 bonus.

"The employee must be paid £520 months each month through to January," he says.

"This would be a £9bn policy to retain people in work.

"If you stand by your workers we will stand by you," he says.

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The first minister moves on to talk about international travel and the 14 day quarantine on arriving in Scotland from abroad.

Ms Sturgeon says many of the strands of Covid came to Scotland from overseas travel, in particular from mainland Europe.

4,173 people in Scotland have died since then, she adds, pointing out "we should never forget the potential of this virus to do serous harm".

"We must be aware that one of our biggest risk factors as we suppress the virus here is the importation of new cases to Scotland."

She says that is illustrated by what is happening in Melbourne, where a new six-week lockdown is now in place, which may well be due to cases coming into Australia.

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The first minister says: "Scotland has made real and sustained progress against this virus."

She says tomorrow she will give an update at 12.20pm at Holyrood and she hopes to confirm Scotland can move to phase 3 of the routemap out of lockdown.

Ms Sturgeon adds the health secretary will shortly outline some changes for those who are shielding.

These will take affect at the end of this week.

The first minister says there are thousands in the shielded category for whom life remains extremely restricted right now.

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Rishi Sunak says the government will do "all we can" to help prevent job losses in the wake of Covid-19.

"No one will be left without hope," he pledges.

The government will "do what is right" and will be "unencumbered by dogma," he tells MPs.

"Where problems emerge, we will confront them. Where support is justified, we will provide it. Where challenges arise, we will overcome them" he says.

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The first minister says deaths in care homes made up less than a quarter of all Covid deaths last week, reduced from 16 to four.

The total number of deaths from all causes was 40 below the average for this time of year, the second week in a row that it has been below the five year average.

New analysis of deaths registered up to 14 June shows that deaths among people from the South Asian ethnic group were almost twice as likely to involve Covid-19 than deaths in the White ethnic group, after accounting for age group, sex, area deprivation and urban/rural classification.

The first minister says this new data will be considered by the Covid and Ethnicity Expert Reference Group which meets tomorrow.

Nicola Sturgeon says her remarks are going to be little longer today as she will update us on air bridges.

The First Minister confirms 18,309 people now have tested positive for Covid-19, an increase of seven from yesterday.

767 patients are in hospital with a suspected or confirmed case (up 68), with 11 being treated in intensive care (up four).

One more person who tested positive has died in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 2,490 deaths in Scotland by that measure.

This is lower than the 4,173 deaths confirmed by NRS earlier as that figure includes all cases where Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even if the patient had not been tested.

She says 17 deaths were registered in the seven days up to Sunday, which is a decrease of 18 from the previous week.

This is the 10th consecutive week in which the number of deaths has fallen.

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Nicola Sturgeon will lead the daily government briefing at 12:30 BST.

The first minister is expected to make an announcement on quarantine policy for arrivals from overseas and to update information for those shielding.

She will be joined by Health Secretary Jeane Freeman and National Clinical Director Jason Leitch.

You can watch and listen to it here and we will provide updates throughout.

You can also watch Rishi Sunak's summer economic update statement with us, or follow live updates here.

Young people across the UK have had their work, studies and lives upended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Many are working from home, while others have been furloughed or even made redundant.

There could be more than one million young workers who are without a job, if the overall UK level of unemployment goes up from the current 4% of workers to 10%, according to the Resolution Foundation think-tank.

On top of that, under-30s have been hardest hit by a fall in their income during lockdown as more of their money goes on essentials.

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Douglas Fraser
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UK chancellor Rishi Sunak's summer splurge is not a budget.

You can tell the difference because the side of the ledger that explains how spending is to be paid for - in taxes or more borrowing - will not be set out. That should be some time in autumn, when he'll also publish a longer-term spending review.

Now would not be a good time to announce new taxes. People need to be persuaded that this spending spree is going to continue, rather than making their household and business spending decisions in expectation of big bills yet to come.

In Scotland, it’s different. Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has to account for spending commitments with a balancing explanation of how it's funded. With budgets unusually fluid at the moment, that explanation can sometimes be a bit vague: “we’ve found this from other budgets”, but so far in relatively small sums.

She has very little room for manoeuvre in borrowing to fund these commitments, though one of her big asks of the chancellor is that the headroom for borrowing is increased.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce a £2bn "kickstart scheme" later to create more jobs for young people.

The fund will subsidise six-month work placements for people on Universal Credit aged between 16 and 24, who are at risk of long-term unemployment.

Labour welcomed the move, but said the government had failed to "rise to the scale of the unemployment crisis".

Scotland's Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has repeated her call to be allowed to switch capital funding to day-to-day revenue.

Meanwhile Nicola Sturgeon reiterated her call for an £80bn economic stimulus package yesterday.

The chancellor's statement begins at 12.30pm, at the same time as the Scottish government briefing. You can watch both with us here on the live page.

A total of 4,173 Scots deaths have been linked to Covid-19 as of 5 July, official figures show.

The National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures, external indicate that is an increase of 17 deaths from the previous week.

From 29 June to 5 July, 40 fewer deaths from all causes were registered compared with the average number for this time of year.

New analysis of deaths registered up to 14 June shows that deaths among people from the South Asian ethnic group were almost twice as likely to involve Covid-19 than deaths in the White ethnic group, after accounting for age group, sex, area deprivation and urban/rural classification.

The NRS weekly figures are higher than the daily figure announced by Nicola Sturgeon because they include all cases where Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even if the patient had not been tested.

Douglas Fraser
Scotland business & economy editor

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The summer statement from UK chancellor Rishi Sunak has been preceded by a lot of pre-briefing, some speculation, and a torrent of advice and lobbying. Here's how it may affect Scotland and what is likely to be up to Holyrood for decisions:

• The KickStart scheme, paying 25 hours a week for young people getting a job for up to six months, applies in Scotland as well as England and Wales, but not in Northern Ireland.
• The vouchers being offered to householders to pay towards energy efficient home improvements are not expected to apply in Scotland. That could be expected, however, to bring a share of funding to Holyrood, for MSPs - or at least ministers - to decide how it is spent.
• A cut of about £1.3bn is expected in stamp duty on home-buying transactions for England and Northern Ireland. That doesn't apply in Scotland or Wales. In Scotland, the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax is wholly controlled from Holyrood. Scotland should be compensated via the block grant.
• Arts and culture is to get £1.57bn of extra spending, most of that in grants. Holyrood gets £97m as a result of that, and it has already been committed to spending on arts and culture.
• A cut in VAT is rumoured and that would apply to the whole UK. If it applies only to hospitality, then that could have a relative advantage to the Scottish economy, because it has a proportionately larger tourism sector.

What you need to know about how the immune system works.

The latest weekly data on coronavirus from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) is due to be published shortly.

The last figures from a week ago showed the number of deaths from Covid-19 continuing to fall, with 35 deaths linked to the virus from 22 - 28 June - the lowest number since the middle of March.

As of 28 June, the number with coronavirus mentioned on the death certificate was 4,155.

These differ from the daily figures released by Public Health Scotland, which concern deaths of people who have tested positive for Covid-19. The latest total, by that measure, is 2,489.

You can find more detailed information on the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Scotland here.