Level 3 - Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling, Dundee.

Level 2 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll & Bute, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Fife, Perth & Kinross.

Level 1 - Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles.

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Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie asks why care home workers were told to stay away from work if they had symptoms but then hundreds of people with the virus were sent into care homes.

He says there was "one rule for care workers and another rule for this government".

Mr Rennie demands an apology and Ms Sturgeon replies: "I am sorry for any error that I have made. I have said that many times before."

She adds that her government tries at every point on the basis of the evidence and advice to make effective decisions.

Patrick Harvie says the restrictions announced by the first minister "will be with us for a long time to come".

The Scottish Greens co-leader argues Boris Johnson's government is "giving us all a Halloween nightmare" with the ending of furlough and its inadequate replacement.

Mr Harvie points out the success of the new restrictions will depend on enforcement at a local level. He says the resources will be needed to do that work and calls for additional funding.

The first minister replies that the support being provided by the UK government is important and welcome but does not go far enough.

She reiterates her criticism of the move from furlough to the job support scheme, with "the impact of that deficiency" being felt by workers across the country.

Ms Sturgeon highlights the Scottish government grant scheme for businesses that close or are restricted, "going beyond the resources committed to us through consequentials".

She pledges to discuss further funding with local authorities to help pay for enforcement of the new restrictions.

Mr Harvie raises reports of people being told by employers not to follow the rules, for example being told not to download the Protect Scotland app or being forced to work with symptoms

The first minister pledges to look at proposals from Unite Hospitality on routine testing for those in the industry.

She details powers local authorities have to deal with businesses acting in the way Mr Harvie describes.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard says the care home report "does not tell the whole story".

He says the "crisis" in care homes involved multiple factors, including personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages and a lack of testing.

Mr Leonard says precautions applied to other aspects of the pandemic were not applied to care homes.

The first minister says there was a "significant acute concern" in the early days of the pandemic that Scotland's hospitals would be overwhelmed with Covid patients.

Ms Sturgeon adds that there was an "underdeveloped understanding" of the virus.

The Scottish government has published a paper setting out how the decisions on each area were reached.

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It emerged yesterday that dozens of patients who had tested positive for Covid-19 were transferred from Scottish hospitals to care homes.

A Public Health Scotland (PHS), external report said 78 such patients were discharged to care homes between 1 March and 21 April.

Only 650 of the total 3,599 elderly patients discharged from hospital during the period had been tested.

Nicola Sturgeon, however, said there was "no statistical evidence" that hospital discharges led to care home outbreaks.

The analysis found the size of care home played a bigger role, with the largest much more likely to have outbreaks than smaller ones.

Deaths in care homes account for about half of Covid-related deaths in Scotland, with about 2,000 resident deaths.

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• The people who have lost their lives to Covid-19

Ms Davidson addresses the “increased risk” of an outbreak when someone with Covid was transferred to a care home and says it was deemed as high as 374%.

She calls for a public inquiry to start now “because there is so much we don’t know”.

The Scottish Conservative group leader also says only 13.5% of care homes who were never sent any patients ended up having an outbreak.

This jumped to 38% when a home had one or more patients put into their care.

But Ms Davidson says we still don’t know “how high that number goes when a home had a known Covid patient sent to them?”

Ms Sturgeon says the report was “entirely independent” and compiled by academics.

She adds: “I don’t think the report is the last word on these issues.

“I have never thought that.

“There is much more work to be done to understand the issues that were factors in care home outbreaks.

“This report tells us some of that but it does not tell us all of that.”

Ms Sturgeon confirms there will be a “full public inquiry” but her focus at the moment is to get through the pandemic.

Ms Davidson accuses Ms Surgeon of selectively choosing a line from the report by quoting: “Overall the analysis does not find statistical evidence that hospital discharges were associated with care home outbreaks”.

She highlights that the first minister “chose not to read the next line” which said there was a “relatively wide variation in the estimated levels of risk”.

Ms Davidson asks: “How high might the risk have been of putting known Covid positive patients into care homes?”

Ms Sturgeon acknowledges the “distress and grief” caused to those with loved ones in care homes and adds: “I want to say again today that I am deeply sorry for that.”

She adds that the position on testing changed in line with evidence and advice in Scotland and in other parts of the UK.

But she says “the absence of testing did not equate to an absence of action” and states guidance was in place “all along” to minimise the risk in care homes.

Ms Sturgeon says she did not try to hide any aspect of the report, which she admits contains some “hard messages”.

The first minister calls on the public to make sure they know the restrictions in their local area.

From Monday, a government postcode checker will help people do that.

She reminds the public:

• Wherever you live do not visit other people’s houses.
• And don’t travel to or from Level 3 areas

The first minister also highlights FACTS:

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The first minister concludes by saying if everyone follows the rules and guidance "we can protect each other, protect the NHS, and save lives".

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A new five-level system of local Covid restrictions comes into force on Monday 2 November. Each of Scotland's 32 local authorities has now been assigned one of the levels. So, which of these tiers has your area been put into?

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The first minister tells the chamber: "The levels we will put in place from Monday, require more sacrifice, at a time when all of us are tired of making sacrifices."

She insists they are essential and calls on everyone to "dig in and stick with it".

However, the first minister warns: "I cannot rule out a move back to nationwide restrictions in the next few weeks, including at Level 4."

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Ms Sturgeon turns finally to travel.

She says: "If people don’t abide by the travel advice, the virus will spread from high to lower prevalence areas, and a differentiated approach will become unsustainable. In these circumstances, we would have to return to national restrictions."

The first minister details travel restictions:

• If you live in a Level 3 council area or in future a Level 4 area, please do not travel outside the council area you live in - unless you require to do so for essential reasons
• If you live in a Level 1 or 2 local authority area, you must not travel into a Level 3 or Level 4 council area except for essential purposes

Ms Sturgeon explains that essential purposes mean things like work – if you really cannot work from home – education, local outdoor exercise, healthcare or caring responsibilities, and essential shopping where that is not possible locally.

In recent weeks that guidance has applied to different health board areas. But from Monday, it will apply at local authority level.

Similarly people should not travel between Scotland and areas in the rest of the UK with high levels of the virus unless they really need to do so.

Ms Sturgeon turns to the situation in Lanarkshire and says the decision between Level 3 and Level 4 there has been very finely balanced.

The first minister points out there is evidence in recent days that the situation is stabilising there.

She says: "We have decided that North and South Lanarkshire should remain in level 3 at present."

The first minister turns to Dundee and says it is currently seeing, per week, about 185 new cases per hundred thousand of the population.

That is higher than for several of the areas already in the equivalent of level 3.

Ms Sturgeon tells the chamber: "We have therefore decided that a Level 3 assessment for Dundee is the correct one."

She says support is available for businesses that are required to close, and says all businesses across Scotland will have access to the replacement job support scheme from the UK government which begins on Monday.

The first minister turns to Inverclyde and says she understands why it would wish to be assessed as Level 2.

Ms Sturgeon explains it was not considered safe to take that decision and it is in Level 3 for the moment along with:

• East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire, and the City of Glasgow;
• South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire;
• Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire;
• The City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, West Lothian and East Lothian

The first minister hopes that at a very early review point, the government will be able to consider moving some areas, East Lothian in particular and possibly Edinburgh, from Level 3 to level 2.