Nicola Sturgeon announces new Covid advice for Scotland

First minister asks public to keep festive celebrations as small as your family circumstances allow'

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Scots face renewed limits on social mixing over the festive period in an attempt to slow the spread of the Omicron variant while the vaccine booster programme accelerates across the country.

Emphasising that nobody should cancel their Christmas Day plans, Nicola Sturgeon urged people socialising before and immediately after 25 December to limit their indoor socialising to no more than three households.