UK coronavirus live: Scotland’s R number ‘probably now above 1’ and could be 1.4, says Nicola Sturgeon
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Q: Why is Scotland applying quarantine from arrivals from the whole of Greece when the Welsh government’s quarantine policy just covers arrivals from Zante?
Sturgeon says test and protect provides a lot of information about where cases are coming from, and there have been a lot of positive cases in Scotland in people who have recently returned from Greece.
Q: Were you over-optimistic earlier in the summer in June when you said the virus was in retreat and we were moving nearer to normality?
Sturgeon says that, when she made that comment, the virus was in retreat.
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