Glasgow becomes only part of Scotland under level three restrictions

Glasgow is now the only part of Scotland in level three coronavirus restrictions.

It's after Nicola Sturgeon announced the Moray council area will drop to Level 2 from midnight.

Speaking at a Scottish Government coronavirus briefing on Friday, the First Minister said Glasgow will remain at Level 3 for a further week before review.

She said improvements following measures brought in to tackle an outbreak in Moray mean it can drop to Level 2 from midnight on Friday.

East Renfrewshire, which has a higher seven-day average rate of cases per 100,000 people at 118.3 than Glasgow, will remain in Level 2.

Ms Sturgeon said the total number of cases in East Renfrewshire is significantly smaller than in Glasgow, with only 17 on Thursday compared to 166 in the city.

Speaking about the situation in the Glasgow City Council area, Ms Sturgeon said there had been "extensive public health measures" deployed over the past 10 days.

This includes enhanced testing and vaccination in the areas with the highest rates of coronavirus, particularly in the G41 and G42 postcodes.

But the First Minister said: "Despite all the efforts that have been made in the past 10 days, cases are still rising in Glasgow."

She added authorities are "fairly certain" the increase is being driven by the Indian variant of the virus.

The First Minister said the number of cases per 100,000 population in Glasgow had gone from 71 last week to 112 now.

The percentage of tests coming back positive in Glasgow has also increased over the last week from 3.1% to 4%, she added.

"We don't think we have turned the corner in Glasgow yet," Ms Sturgeon said.

She also gave an update on the daily coronavirus figures in Scotland.

Across the country 414 new coronavirus cases but no deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, the First Minister said.

The death toll under this daily measure - of people who first tested positive for the virus within the previous 28 days - remains at 7,664.

The daily test positivity rate was 1.9%, up from 1.6% the previous day.

There were 81 people in hospital on Thursday with recently confirmed Covid-19, down two from the previous day, and of these four people were in intensive care, down one from the day before.

So far 3,820,251 people in Scotland have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccination.

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