Here is what we learned at today's coronavirus briefing:

• A further 1,122 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which is 7.1% of those newly tested
• One more person has died, taking the total to 2,701 deaths in Scotland.
• 1,052 patients are in hospital with a confirmed case and 90 are in intensive care.
• The worst affected health board areas are Greater Glasgow & Clyde (428), Lanarkshire (274), Lothian (105) and Ayrshire and Arran (97).
• Clarification will be published on the new five-level strategic framework ahead of a Holyrood debate on Tuesday.
• Ministers will decide later this week which areas fall into which tiers of the framework.
• There will be no change to the 14-day self-isolation period in Scotland.
• As testing capacity increases in Scotland, routine asymptomatic testing will increase "to protect those most vulnerable from the virus" says the health secretary.
• Dundee is being watched closely as infections rise and the city edges towards tighter restrictions.

Follow all the developments and breaking news on our Scotland webpage throughout the day. We will return for tomorrow's update just after noon. Take care and stay safe.

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Students could be told not to return home at Christmas if the spread of the coronavirus has not been controlled, the deputy first minister has said.

John Swinney said it was a situation the government wanted to avoid but it was a "realistic possibility".

In response, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross tells BBC Scotland that "we are a long way away" from Christmas and that he hopes the measures taken in October and early November will suppress the virus before then.

He says that he hopes Christmas will be a time where people can join together and see relatives and friends that they have not seen much throughout this year. Mr Ross adds that he hopes that any restrictions put in place before then will make sure that the NHS is not overwhelmed in the coming months.

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Douglas Ross, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, tells BBC Scotland he thinks that it is the right approach to have tighter restrictions across different areas of Scotland depending on the level of prevalence of the virus.

However, he says that he wants to "ensure the business voice is heard and that they get the support they need" when parliament debates the Scottish government's five-tier framework.

Mr Ross says "it is important to protect jobs as well as lives" and that some businesses in the central belt are still in need of support after restrictions were placed on hospitality earlier this month.

Prof Kao gives his view on vaccines, saying that we are not at a stage yet where we can say if herd immunity would work, and we also do not know enough about the vaccines currently being developed.

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Prof Kao talks about testing human waste to identify outbreaks.

He says Covid-19 goes through the gut and stomach and virus fragments have to be passed through the waste water system.

He says there is a good correspondence between what you can detect in the waste water and the amount of infections in different areas.

The epidemiologist says there is an opportunity to do low-cost surveillance in the community and could help to identify outbreaks earlier.

Back in the BBC Scotland studio, epidemiologist Professor Rowland Kao says the R number being above 1 means putting a hold on gathering at Halloween and Bonfire Night is a good idea.

He says testing and tracing is key in the next few months. One of the issues will be for people to be able to tell if they have Covid or other winter viruses.

He says lower temperatures could see infections rise and people going inside in colder weather.

Ross Govans from STV asks how close Dundee is to being placed under greater restrictions. He also asks about people moving around Scotland between areas with different restrictions and how problematic the first minister thinks this could be.

The first minister says Dundee is one part of the country that the government is looking at closely every day, alongside Lanarkshire.

She says that it is better to have different rules for different areas in Scotland rather than having restrictions placed on the whole country, but with this will inevitably come the advice not to travel to different areas.

The first minister continues by saying this trade-off is one of the conditions which will allow areas with lower prevalence of the virus to continue living in a less restricted way.

National clinical director Professor Jason Leitch says it is important to note that people from high-prevalence areas should not be travelling to low prevalence areas.

Ms Sturgeon answers the second part of the BBC question - on whether Scotland would follow England in reducing the period required for self-isolation from 14 days to 7.

National clinical director Prof Jason Leitch adds that there is also no suggestion of this in the other three UK countries. He also says this is under constant review.

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Jamie McIvor from BBC Scotland asks about the plan to allow students home over Christmas.

The first minister says she is trying to be clear in what she wants to do but also be frank about the uncertainties.

She says the main thing is we are living through an uncertain and unpredictable pandemic and she cannot give a cast-iron assurance on anything right now.

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman says the advice is clear that as testing capacity increases in Scotland, so should routine asymptomatic testing "to protect those most vulnerable from the virus" such as residents in care homes.

"Scotland is on track to increase overall testing capacity to 65,000 tests per day by winter," she says.

The significant majority of this increased capacity will be carried out at three regional hubs which should be operational by November or December - providing an extra 22,000 tests per day for NHS Scotland.

Ms Sturgeon ends with a reminder that people in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Lothian, Ayrshire and Arran, or Forth Valley should not travel outside those areas unless there is a clear need to do so.

No one should be meeting other households indoors, avoid car sharing, work from home and download the Protect Scotland app.

She ends with a run through of the FACTS.

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Ms Sturgeon says there are now 11 walk-through testing sites open after new locations opened in Greenock and Inverness at the weekend.

She says they are an important way of making testing more accessible and will continue working with the UK government to set up more locations throughout the winter.

The first minister says she believes the increase in case numbers is slowing but it is not yet in decline which is why we "can't be complacent".

However, we should take encouragement from the daily numbers which suggest the sacrifices we are making are starting to work.

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