Here's a summary of the key point from today's briefingpublished at 14:09 British Summer Time 11 September 2020
Thursday's coronavirus briefing key points
- A further 175 cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Scotland, including 80 in Greater Glasgow and Clyde area
- That represents 2.7% of those tested. There have been no new reported deaths of people with a positive test
- FM says cases in Lanarkshire area - up 39 in 24 hours - are causing "particular concern"
- She re-emphasises new limit of six people from two households allowed to meet in Scotland from Monday and asks people to start observing this from this weekend
- Nicola Sturgeon urges the public to download the new government coronavirus tracing app which she describes as an "enhancement" to existing systems
- Interim Deputy Chief Medical officer Dr Nicola Steedman says there are "two very good candidate vaccines" being evaluated
- The FM says daily live TV briefings "more important not less important"
That's it for today's live page coverage of the briefing - stay safe.