Nicola Sturgeon is set to lay out her new strategic framework for dealing with covid later today. The First Minister will speak in the Scottish Parliament this afternoon at around 2.20pm as the Scottish Government's blueprint for managing and recovering from coronavirus is published.
When she updated MSPs on the pandemic earlier this month, she said Scotland was "through the worst" of the Omicron wave and the situation was "much more positive" than at the start of the year.
Yesterday the SNP leader said it would be "unacceptable" for public health decisions of the devolved administrations to be impacted by funding decisions taken by the UK Government.She said: "In terms of fixed automatic trigger points - we need to be a bit cautious about that."Because we know that, if we look at the risks we may face in the future in the form of new variants for example, not all variants have the same impact.
You need to have attention to data, to evidence."But inevitably, there will have to be judgment applied in any given situation about the actual severity of the threat that any new risk might pose." To sign up to the Daily Record Politics newsletter, click here. Older Scots aged over 75 and the vulnerable will get a fourth covid booster jab within weeks.UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced the decision following advice from experts and Holyrood counterpart Humza Yousaf confirmed it will apply in Scotland too.Javid said: "All four parts of the UK intend to follow the JCVI’s advice.