'We mess with this virus at our peril': Sturgeon urges caution as Covid-19 deaths fall
by Severin Carrell and Pamela Duncan from on (#55G6W)
Public health academic applauds leadership of Scotland's first minister on coronavirus strategy
In Scotland the days when Nicola Sturgeon had to report scores of Covid-19 deaths at the height of the pandemic are a distant memory. Over the past weekend there was a four-day period without a single death recorded in the country's hospitals.
Buoyed by those figures, and a continuing, steady, decline in coronavirus infections, the first minister hopes Scotland could soon eliminate the virus so is resisting heavy pressure from businesses to quickly ease the strict lockdown.
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