• First Minister Questions is dominated by the newly published Audit Scotland report saying the Scottish government was not adequately prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic
• Both Conservative Ruth Davidson and Labour's Jackie Baillie asked why the Scottish government did not act on repeated pandemic warnings
• Patrick Harvie for the Greens says teachers should get their vaccine before schools return and Willie Rennie for the Liberal Democrats calls for a pending OECD education report to be published now

• Scotland's Covid-linked deaths now top 9,000, according to the National Records of Scotland weekly stats
• The first minister says the figures show deaths in care homes are down by 62%, showing the vaccination programme is working
• The daily Public Health Scotland stats show a further 64 deaths of people who tested positive for Covid within 28 days have been registered in the past 24 hours
• The close contacts of those confirmed as being Covid positive are to be tested as a matter of course from Thursday
• There are calls for greater efforts to vaccinate young disabled adults living in care homes against coronavirus

• Some Scottish school pupils could be partly taught from home indefinitely, the education secretary has acknowledged

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A senior figure in Scottish education says he can see "no reason" why a review into Scotland's secondary education system has been delayed.

Dr Keir Bloomer, one of the architects of the Curriculum for Excellence, said the sooner the independent review was published "the better".

It had originally been expected to be released in February, ahead of the Holyrood election in May.

The Scottish government has blamed the delay on the Covid-19 pandemic.

The review is being led by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie asks how the people of Scotland can judge the first minister on her education record if she won't publish an OECD review into the Scottish curriculum until after the election.

The first minister replies the timetable of the review has been set by the OECD.

Mr Rennie insists the Scottish government has the report already so the Scottish government should publish it now and he questions the independence of the report.

Ms Sturgeon says that the idea the OECD would allow to happen what Mr Rennie suggests is "completely outrageous".

The preliminary report is merely for fact checking, she says.

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Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie asks if the government will consider occupational vaccines, and questions whether it is safe for teachers to return to schools without having received their jab.

The FM says she would not have decided to bring some school pupils back to classrooms if she was not "assured it was safe".

She says the risk of reopening schools comes less from transmission among children, and more from a shift in the rules acting as a "trigger" for adults to act more normally.

While waiting on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), Ms Sturgeon says it is "absolutely the case there may be focus on occupational groups" and she will "continue to consider this" and set out approach as soon as she can.

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Labour's interim leader says the first minister must stop "hiding behind frontline staff" as this is about her leadership.

Jackie Baillie says concerns about social care were highlighted years ago and had they been heeded “lives could have been saved”.

She goes on to call for enhanced PPE for health and care staff to combat new variants.

The first minister insists she has never tried to hide in any way and insists her government has shown leadership.

Ms Sturgeon says there was a stockpile of PPE at the start of the pandemic and Scotland never ran out of it.

She accepts mistakes have been made, but says lessons were learned from them.

The first minister says it is for clinical advisers to say what PPE should be used.

Jackie Baillie also focuses on the Audit Scotland report saying it makes clear "a pandemic should have been anticipated".

The Scottish Labour interim leader says the Scottish government knew it could threaten the lives of people across Scotland and the social care system would struggle to cope.

The government was also told access to protective equipment for our nurses and doctors was simply not good enough, adds Ms Baillie.

Yet it did not act on any of these warnings, she says, asking if that was due to "negligence or incompetence".

The first minister says she won't even respond to that question as it is "demeaning" and moves on to point out again this was not a flu pandemic.

Ms Sturgeon adds not enough of the planning and preparedness was for the Covid-19 type pandemic, which is very difficult to learn.

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Ruth Davidson asks why the Scottish government did not act on repeated warnings about PPE.

The first minister says she does not accept this characterisation of the issue, adding Scotland "has never once ran out of PPE".

She says it was found distribution mechanisms had to be improved, which "we did rapidly".

Ms Davidson turns to care homes saying guidance that was issued was "a decade old" and asks whether lives could have been saved if the government acted sooner.

Nicola Sturgeon responds saying it is "simply not true" that guidance was not issued.

She adds that if the government could "turn back the clock" it would have done things differently with the knowledge it has now.

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The Scottish government was not adequately prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the public spending watchdog.

An Audit Scotland report, external said ministers had been expecting and planning for a pandemic but had based their preparations on flu.

The watchdog also found the government acted quickly to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by coronavirus.

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said the report would be considered carefully.

• Read more here

Conservative Ruth Davidson raises the issue of an Audit Scotland report which said ministers were not fully ready for Covid - she asks how many recommendations from preparedness exercises had been implemented by March of 2020?

Nicola Sturgeon responds by quoting the recent report, saying the NHS and Scottish government "responded quickly" to the pandemic.

She does not give the number out of the 52 recommendations, but says the report "does not capture fully" that the government had prepared for flu in the early stages of the pandemic, "therefore no amount of preparedness would have been sufficient".

Ms Sturgeon says the more valid criticism is the government "relied too much on flu preparation" rather than preparation for the likes of the Sars virus, which she says is a lesson that will be learned.

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The first minister ends, as ever, by asking us all to "stick with it" and follow the rules and FACTS and of course stay at home.

Here's a reminder of those rules and regulations:

1. Scottish government: Coronavirus (COVID-19): what you can and cannot do, external

From Tuesday 5 January, mainland Scotland moved from Level 4 to a temporary lockdown, with new guidance to stay at home, external except for essential purposes.

• read a quick guide to what you can and cannot do: stay at home infographic, external

2. Postcode checker, external for COVID restrictions by protection level in areas of Scotland

3. NHS Inform, external

The latest from NHS Scotland and the Scottish government, including social distancing, face covering and stay at home advice.

4. Test and Protect, external

If you have Covid-19 symptoms go immediately to NHS Inform online or phone 0800 028 2816 to book a test.

The latest from NHS Scotland and the Scottish government, including social distancing, face covering and stay at home advice.

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Ms Sturgeon says from tomorrow the advice given to close contacts of people who test positive will change.

As well as being asked to isolate for 10 days they will also now be asked to get tested as well.

This is a further strengthening of Test and Protect.

The first minister says the age breakdown from the NRS stats for the total number of deaths shows the largest reduction was in the over-85s.

Ms Sturgeon says it strongly suggests the vaccine programme is having the hoped for effect.

She reports that as of 08:30 a total of 1,320,074 people had received the first dose of the vaccine - an increase of 32,070 since yesterday.

First doses have been offered to all over-70s, all care home residents, all frontline health and care workers and all people with a serious clinical vulnerability, she says.

64% of 65-69 year olds have also had the first jab.

The first minister says there are some positives from the weekly NRS statistics.

Ms Sturgeon says they show the first hard evidence of the positive impact of the vaccination:

• Deaths overall have fallen now for three consecutive weeks.
• Deaths in hospital have fallen by 11% over the three weeks
• Deaths in people's homes or other non-institutional settings have fallen by 29%
• Deaths in care homes have fallen by 62%

A further 1,121 people have tested positive for coronavirus within 24 hours, which represents 5.2% of those tested.

That brings the total number of cases to 194,269.

Hospital admissions are at 1317, a decrease of 66.

A further 64 deaths of people who tested positive for Covid within 28 days have been registered.

By Sunday 9,053 people had died under the wider measure.

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Nicola Sturgeon will begin updating the Scottish parliament imminently about the latest developments around coronavirus in Scotland.

The first minister will then face questions from opposition leaders.

The Audit Scotland report on pandemic preparedness and education look set to dominate today.

You can follow it all right here on this live page or watch or listen by clicking one of tabs above for BBC One Scotland, the BBC Scotland Channel or Radio Scotland.

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• Scotland Covid-linked deaths are now over 9,000 according to the NRS weekly stats
• The Scottish government was not adequately prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the public spending watchdog
• There are calls for greater efforts to vaccinate young disabled adults living in care homes against coronavirus
• Shop sales last month were "trapped in the depths of a dark and dismal winter", according to retailers
• Scottish retail, hospitality, leisure and aviation businesses will not pay non-domestic rates throughout the next financial year
• Some Scottish school pupils could be partly taught from home indefinitely, the education secretary has acknowledged
• The youngest pupils are to return to Scotland's classrooms for face-to-face teaching from next week

• Nicola Sturgeon says it is unlikely that any other pupils will return to school before 15 March at the earliest

• senior phase pupils, teachers and school staff will be able to get at-home lateral flow tests twice a week
• All other existing lockdown measures will all remain in place until at least the end of this month
• The Scottish government will draw up a "revised strategic framework" - to be published next week - to set out how Scotland can exit lockdown

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The Scottish government was not adequately prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the public spending watchdog.

An Audit Scotland report, external said ministers had been expecting and planning for a pandemic but had based their preparations on flu.

The watchdog also found the government acted quickly to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by coronavirus.

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said the report would be considered carefully.

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the report was "damning" for the Scottish government.

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