dr nick fynn, the medical director of public health scotland, said. more than two million people have had a boosterjab in scotland, but public health officials say we still need to learn more about the severity of the disease caused by omicron and the effectiveness of the vaccines. speaking before the plea to postpone parties, scotland s national clinical director said there are important steps people can take to protect themselves and their families. i will be lateral flow testing before i do any dinners or if i go out. or if i have my family round. and my family will be doing lateral flow tests before they come for christmas dinner i won t be checking my mum s certificate at the door. but my mum will be lateral flow tested before she comes and she s fully vaccinated. so that seems to me to be a small
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lateral flow test, they can be used to identify variants of consent. whether the government will scrap pcr tests altogether is still in the balance. ., ., ., ~ , balance. the ration for keeping pcr testin: in balance. the ration for keeping pcr testing in particular rather than lateral flow testing as it does enable you to do the genome sequencing of potential new variants, and that s been their argument for keeping it as a pcr test. but we also want to try to help people get back to life as normal, so if that case can be made four changes then obviously we will consider that. some scientists argue they are still needed. i would like to see pcr tests remain because they ve given us so much information already from the sequencing. so we know when delta was introduced that this virus was imported over 500 times and we wouldn t have that information if we weren t doing the screening and a sequencing associated with that. the government has said its top priority is to protect public heal