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Covid in Scotland: The headlines

• There is “nothing to suggest" there สมัครสมาชิกสล็อต has been any spread of the Brazil variant into the local community in Scotland, says chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith
• There are now more than 200,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Scotland and more than 7,000 people have died following a positive test for the virus.
• In total 1,661,879 people have now received their first dose of the vaccine in Scotland.
• Just under half of care home residents in Scotland have now received a second dose of the Covid vaccine.
• Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie says the “last minute” announcement that pupils will return to schools in March will be difficult to take for “exhausted” teachers.
• Health Secretary Jeane Freeman says more than 36,000 school staff and 3,000 pupils have now taken lateral flow tests and "very few were positive".
• In Scotland’s asymptomatic testing programme, 10,000 tests were taken by people with no symptoms and 250 of these were positive up to 23 February.
• The latest National Records of Scotland data reveals 9,580 deaths have been recorded as of 28 February where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate

That's all from our live coverage of the briefing. We will be back tomorrow.