SNP education secretary said that infection levels had continued to fall, despite children in nurseries and P1 to P3 returning to the classroom on February 22 – a move that came two weeks ahead of pupils in England.Swinney today insisted that earlier return had happened “because we felt that was a safe thing for us to be able to do because of the low prevalence amongst younger children”.And Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gregor Smith, said since then there had only been “one or two small outbreaks” of coronavirus.There have been 501 new cases of the virus recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours, Swinney announced at Monday’s Covid-19 briefing.Just one death was recorded over that period, though most registrars officers are closed at.