Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament at a specially-recalled session this afternoon: “We are now seeing a steeply rising trend of infections – I am more worried now than at any time since March last year.”She also noted that NHS Lanarkshire is one of three health boards currently operating at above 60 per cent of their capacity, and told how the number of Covid patients nationally “is now close to the April peak”.The First Minister said: “This is not the new year statement I wanted to give, and it's one no-one wanted to hear.“We are now in a race between the vaccine and the virus; all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread, and that means introducing.
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