Nicola Sturgeon has issues another plea with Scots to limit their contact with other households in the final weekend before Christmas in a desperate bid to limit the spread of Omicron.It comes as the Omicron variant of coronavirus has officially become the dominant strain in Scotland.The First Minister provided an update on the current state of Covid in the country today (Friday).She said: "In relation to the Omicron variant specifically, as of 5pm yesterday, there were 696 confirmed cases in Scotland.
However, these are cases confirmed through genome sequencing. This measure very significantly underestimates the true volume of Omicron cases."As I have set out before, an earlier indicator of whether or not a case is Omicron - and a better
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