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Nicola Sturgeon announces new Covid rules for Scotland - latest restrictions in full

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Scotland is to face tougher Coronavirus restrictions after Christmas, Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The new measures include limiting the capacity at outdoor events, seeing large-scale Hogmanay celebrations cancelled and rendering live sports 'effectively spectator-free.' It comes as the First Minister confirmed today the Omicron variant is the country's most dominant strain. READ MORE: The 30 countries where UK travellers are banned or face strict rules to enter Updating MSPs, the First Minister said 62.9% of cases showed the S-gene dropout typical of the Omicron variant.

She said: “It is currently spreading rapidly across Scotland, and so the steep increase in infections that was predicted last week has now started to materialise.” The

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