Nicola Sturgeon has revealed the Scottish Government is monitoring a new variant of the Delta strain which has caused a rise in infections.
The First Minister took to social media to urge Scots to practice good personal hygiene in a bid to prevent a spread of the deadly virus.
According to the latest data around six per cent of cases have been sequenced to a new type of covid variant. ' Delta Plus ' or AY.4.2 is believed to be spreading rapidly, however not as fasts as the original Delta variant when it hit the UK earlier this year.
Despite the new strain it has not been considered a Variant of Concern or a Variant Under Investigation.The SNP leader said her cabinet discussed the "need to monitor" the new variant which has hit the UK.She