Nicola Sturgeon has called for tougher travel restrictions to be put in place as concerns grow over the new Omicron covid variant.
The First Minister wants people coming to the UK from overseas to self-isolate for eight days in a bid to control a mutation which originated in Southern Africa.
Sturgeon, who described Omicron as the "most challenging development of the pandemic for quite some time", also called for the measures to be rolled out on a four nations basis.
The Scottish Government confirmed this morning that six cases of Omicron had been identified in Scotland, with four in Lanarkshire and two in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.