Covid in Scotland LIVE as restrictions lifted on hospitality and indoor events

Covid restrictions that were implemented over the festive period are to be lifted next week, Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The First Minister told MSPs at Holyrood that due to the improving coronavirus situation across Scotland measures could be eased from Monday, January 24.

Limits on people attending indoor events and table service only at bars will be scrapped, while nightclubs will be allowed to reopen as normal.

While, the covid vaccine passport scheme will not be extended despite it being considered by ministers. Sturgeon said yesterday: "The remaining statutory measures introduced in response to Omicron are as follows; limits on attendance at indoor public events; the requirement for one metre physical distancing between different groups in indoor public places; the requirement for table service in hospitality premises serving alcohol on the premises; and the closure of nightclubs. "Given the improving situation - and as I said last week we hoped to be able to do - I can confirm today that all of these measures will be lifted from next Monday, January 24." To sign up to the Daily Record Politics newsletter, click here. A previous Covid infection could lead to ‘hair shedding’, experts have claimed.Research at the School of Medicine at Indiana University in America found that almost a third of people reported hair shedding as a longer term impact of the virus.Experts at Usak University in Turkey reported that the number of people being diagnosed with alopecia in recent months had grown by 33 per cent when compared to the months prior to the pandemic.READ MORE: Hair loss appearing in Covid sufferers months after infectionHello and welcome to the Daily Record's live coronavirus blog on Wednesday, January 19.Througho