you are meeting indoors limit the number of households in your group to three at most and keep windows open and follow advice on hygiene. i want to record my thanks to everyone across the country who continues to do all of this and played their part in helping us through this latest very challenging phase of the pandemic. thank you very much and i m happy now to take questions. the first minister will now take questions first minister will now take questions on first minister will now take questions on the first minister will now take questions on the issues - first minister will now take i questions on the issues raised first minister will now take - questions on the issues raised in her statement questions on the issues raised in her statement and questions on the issues raised in her statement and i questions on the issues raised in her statement and i intend - questions on the issues raised in her statement and i intend to . questions on the issues raised in . her statem
make but i will continue to make thesejudgments make but i will continue to make these judgments carefully and with these judgments carefully and with the best possible clinical advice and even today, the changes we are announcing, although they are proportionate, at this stage, because they balance the benefits of isolation with the disruption that isolation with the disruption that isolation causes, they are not without risk. that is why it is important we communicate them properly and that people understand notjust properly and that people understand not just what the easing of these restrictions is, but what we are asking people to do in place of these and that applies to the changes on self isolation but also the changes around confirmatory pcr testing after an asymptomatic positive result. douglas ross and myself have had exchanges in the past and i say this, this is the stuff of democracy, but at times in the past if i had followed douglas
ross we would have removed the requirements for face coverings prematurely, and we would not have had the mitigations we now have in schools which i think i ll seem to be really important. there have been differences and there will no doubt be more differences but the trust placed in me and the responsibility placed in me and the responsibility placed in me by the scottish people means that i have the duty to way these things up carefully and of course be accountable for the judgments we arrive at. douglas ross. the first judgments we arrive at. douglas ross. the first minister- judgments we arrive at. douglas i ross. the first minister mentioned the recent scotland ross. the first minister mentioned the recent scotland made - ross. the first minister mentioned the recent scotland made an - ross. the first minister mentioned | the recent scotland made an outlier was because of the clinical advice she received so will she publish the clinical she received so will she publish the cl