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Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has urged people to act on the assumption the riskier new Omnicron Covid variant is circulating in Scotland and follow all the existing face-covering and restrictions.
Sturgeon told the Andrew Marr programme on BBC1 that the variant, which was first detected in southern Africa, had not yet been found in Scotland. But she added: “I’m asking people to behave in Scotland just now as if it is present.”
She said tougher restrictions, including on travel, could be needed if the variant caught hold. The Scottish government has already matched all the restrictions on travel from southern Africa introduced by the UK government for English airports last week.
“I think we may need to go further to restrict travel in the next few days,” she said. “I think we need to be open minded to doing anything to keep the population safe right now.”
She said that “on the upside”, health experts and ministers knew what to do in these situations, and the vaccines were still effective at limiting its spread and its ill-effects. She urged people to take up vaccines and booster jabs.
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Doctor who discovered Omicron variant says UK ‘panicking unnecessarily’ and that symptoms ‘extremely mild’
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Austria detects its first case of Omicron
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UK health secretary says vaccines may be less effective against Omicron variant
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