Nicola Sturgeon daily coronavirus report LIVE: 993 more positive cases recorded in Scotland, one more death

Sister Sledge star Kim Sledge has re-recorded his band’s hit album We Are Family to raise funds for the World Health Organization and foster international unity amid Covid-19.

The 63-year-old singer has joined social enterprise group The World We Want to record a remake of the 1979 song, with proceeds going to the foundation’s arm of the WHO, including its global response to the coronavirus. .

Celebrities, frontline workers, international leaders and members of the public will appear in a viral music video for the track, which will be released on November 9.

Sledge and her sisters Debbie, Joni, and Kathy formed Sister Sledge in 1971 and later released songs like Lost In Music and He The Greatest Dancer.

Welsh Prime Minister Mark Drakeford said that a “firewall” lock would be a “short, sharp blow to turn back time, slow down the virus and give us more time.”

Under the measures, all non-essential retail, leisure, hospitality and tourism businesses will close “just as they had to do during the close of March.”

Community centers, libraries and recycling centers will also close, while places of worship will remain closed except for funerals or wedding ceremonies.

Daycares will remain open, and elementary and specialty schools will reopen after the midterm break.

High schools will also reopen after midterm, but only for boys in years seven and eight, though test-taking students will be able to attend for them.

The prime minister has said that the Scottish government’s strategic plan to combat the coronavirus will be published later this week.

Nicola Sturgeon said he would discuss the framework’s outline with party leaders on Tuesday with the intention of having a debate in Holyrood early next week.

The Prime Minister has previously said that a tiered alert system, similar to the one implemented in England last week, will be part of the Scottish government’s approach.

The Prime Minister said: “One of the things that the framework will set out is the different levels or levels of intervention and restrictions that may be applied in the future, either locally or nationally in Scotland, depending on how the virus is spreading. .

“We will also indicate, based on the latest advice from the national incident management team and our clinical advisers, what level should apply to different parts of the country or potentially the whole country once the current temporary hospitality restrictions come to an end. October 26th.

“The framework will also summarize our work to improve the effectiveness of existing measures to curb Covid, for example, how we will work to improve compliance with Facts advice and other guidelines, reviewing our testing strategy, and how we will continue to support Test and protect “.

A two-week “firewall” lockdown will be introduced across Wales starting at 6pm on Friday, Prime Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed.

Drakeford told a Welsh government press conference in Cardiff that the move was necessary to reduce the spread of the coronavirus and prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed.

The “sharp and deep” lockdown will begin at 6pm on October 23 and last until November 9, with everyone in Wales “staying home”.

“The only exceptions will be critical workers and jobs where you can’t work from home,” Drakeford said.

The new head of British Airways has demanded that the self-isolation requirement for international arrivals be replaced by Covid-19 testing before departure.

Sean Doyle, who was named CEO last week, told the Airlines 2050 industry leaders summit that “we do not believe quarantine is the solution.”

He said: “We believe that the best way to reassure people is to present a reliable and affordable proof before flying.

“For the UK, this approach reduces stress on NHS testing systems within the UK and on surveillance of the quarantine system.

“If we look abroad at our close neighbors, we see that business travel and, indeed, tourism are being prioritized by some countries.

“We need to get the economy moving again and this is simply not possible when you ask people to self-quarantine for 14 days.

“In our opinion, even if that quarantine period is shortened to seven days, people will not travel here and the UK will be left behind.”

The Prime Minister said the discrepancies in the number of cases reported in recent days are due to tests being diverted from the UK Government’s Lighthouse laboratory in Glasgow.

Speaking at the coronavirus briefing in Edinburgh, Nicola Sturgeon said the step was taken to ensure the lab did not reach capacity.

Some of those diverted tests were from self-service testing centers, where the number of positive cases found is typically higher, meaning the number of new cases may have been biased because some tests were performed elsewhere.

The Prime Minister said at the briefing that the deviations should stop on Sunday and that new cases should be included in the figures for Monday and Tuesday.

She said: “This is one of the reasons why, when we consider the number of positive cases, we always look at trends over several days rather than just one day at a time.

“Our Proof and Protection teams will work to identify positive case contacts as soon as information about them enters our case management system.”

Scotland has recorded one death from coronavirus and 993 positive tests in the last 24 hours, Nicola Sturgeon announced.

Speaking at the Scottish government’s coronavirus briefing, the prime minister said this brings the death toll under this measure, from people who tested positive for the virus for the first time in the previous 28 days, to 2,610.

This is 17.1% of the newly screened people, compared to 11.2% on Sunday.

She said 47,708 people have tested positive in Scotland, 46,715 more than the day before.

However, Sturgeon previously warned that Sunday’s test figures should be treated with caution “due to a delay in processing within the UK laboratory system,” but a British government spokesman denied there were testing capacity issues. .

Of the new cases, 362 are in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 294 in Lanarkshire, 122 in Lothian and 57 in Ayrshire and Arran.

754 people in the hospital have been confirmed to have the virus, an increase of 40 in 24 hours.

Of these patients, 61 were in intensive care, two fewer.