Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.New weekly coronavirus cases in Lanarkshire increased slightly last week for the first time in a month.At her daily press briefing in Edinburgh on Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed there had been 190 new cases in Lanarkshire on Sunday.As a result, last week there were 1586 new Covid-19 cases in the region - a four per cent increase on the previous week.Case numbers had fallen in each of the past three weeks after peaking at 2719 in mid October.However, the "stubbornly high" prevalence of the virus in the region led the Scottish Government to introduce the highest level of coronavirus restrictions last week.Ms Sturgeon today said that.
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