Takeaways and non-essential collection services at risk as Scotland records highest daily death toll
Takeaways, non-essential click and collect services and construction could be restricted further as ministers ponder even tougher lockdown measures after Scotland recorded its highest-ever daily coronavirus death toll.
Updated: 08/01/2021, 5:52 pm
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Takeaways, non-essential click and collect services and construction could be restricted further as ministers ponder even tougher lockdown measures after Scotland recorded its highest-ever daily coronavirus death toll.
Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that 93 virus-related deaths had been recorded in the past 24 hours, eclipsing the previous daily high of 84, while 1,530 patients were being treated in hospital – another grim record and 10 more than the previous peak, in April.
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