Summary

  • In the first two days of the vaccination programme, 5,330 people received the jab

  • A further 50 deaths have been registered meaning the 4,000 Covid fatalities figure has been passed

  • The R number - the rate at which a person infects others - is under one

  • At her weekly Q&A, the first minister faces questions about her husband's appearance before a Holyrood committee

  • Ms Sturgeon is also pressed about why Edinburgh City continues to be in level three and not level two Covid restrictions

  • At a Holyrood committee, the boss of Edinburgh Airport Gordon Dewar criticises Ms Sturgeon's comment that it would not be advisable to book a summer holiday just yet

  • He believes that amounted to the FM “actively campaigning“ against the tourism and aviation industry

  • Mr Dewar also told MSPs that recovery in 2021 would be slow. The airport predicts about seven million passengers next year which is just a fraction of the 50 million seen in 2019

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  1. Test and Protect will be active on Christmas Day

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  2. Vaccination plans 'woefully inadequate' says airport boss

    Edinburgh airport

    The chief executive of Edinburgh Airport has described Scotland’s plans for mass vaccination against Covid-19 as “woefully inadequate”.

    Giving evidence to Holyrood’s Covid Committee Gordon Dewar said that based on the designs he’d seen for vaccination rollout, there is “an extremely high probability” that by March there will be vaccines available in fridges across Scotland, with “no method of delivering them while people are still dying of Covid.”

    Mr Dewar also said Nicola Sturgeon’s comments cautioning people against booking a summer holiday next year amounted to the first minister “actively campaigning“ against the tourism and aviation industry.

  3. Welcome!

    Nicola SturgeonPA Media

    Nicola Sturgeon will update Holyrood from 12.20pm.

    Welcome to BBC Scotland's rolling coverage of the coronavirus pandemic and FMQs on Thursday 10 December 2020.

    Nicola Sturgeon will provide a Covid-19 update ahead of facing questions from opposition party leaders and backbench MSPs.