Covid in Scotland LIVE as remaining Omicron restrictions eased today

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The final restrictions put in place in response to the Omicron variant sweeping across Scotland will be eased from Monday.First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced last week nightclubs would be able to reopen, while the caps on indoor events, table service requirements for venues selling alcohol and social distancing will also be removed.The measures were put in place in December - along with a maximum capacity in outdoor events of 500, which was eased last Monday as the new variant caused a spike in cases - eventually peaking at more than 20,000 in the first days of 2022.However, infections started to dip faster than expected, never reaching the worst case scenario the Scottish Government envisaged as possible - with projections suggesting 50,000 people could be infected daily with the new variant at the peak of the wave.But the requirements for face coverings and self-isolation will remain for the foreseeable future.Meanwhile around one in seven adults now believe life will never return to normal again following the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study conducted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). To sign up to the Daily Record Politics newsletter, click here. The regular survey to gauge the social impacts of the pandemic on Britain found 14 per cent of people believe covid-19 and the accompanying complications of lockdowns, testing and vaccinations are here to stay.When asked the same question a year earlier, only four per cent of adults polled believed life would never return to the normality of the pre-pandemic days.The survey, conducted during the first two weeks of December, also found that almost four in 10 people (39 per cent) believe it will take longer than a year before life returns to normal.Re