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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20210830 09:36:00

Scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, is self isolating after being identified as a close contact of someone with covid 19. she said she would remain in isolation pending the outcome of a pcr test. scotland has seen a record 7 thousand new coronavirus cases in the latest 2a hour period. the scottish government reported more than seven thousand new cases on sunday, but this includes some tests submitted more than 48 hours earlier. there are currently 507 people in hospital with covid across the country, including 52 in intensive care. daily cases in scotland fell to around 1,000 in early august, but have risen again in recent weeks. the surge in infections came after schools returned from the summer holidays deputy first ministerjohn swinney said there was no doubt the return of pupils and staff contributed to the unprecedented levels. professorjason leitch, the national clinical director for scotland, said his health worker colleagues are already feeling the pressure of deliver ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20210830 08:24:00

In recent weeks. the surge in infections came after schools returned from the summer holidays deputy first ministerjohn swinney said there was no doubt the return of pupils and staff contributed to the unprecedented levels. professorjason leitch, the national clinical director for scotland, said his health worker colleagues, are already feeling the pressure of delivering covid and non covid nhs services. when you add a new infectious disease on top of what we already manage, diabetes and strokes and heart attacks and everything else that comes to our community and a hospital system, of course it is stretched. a district in paris, to stretched. a district in paris, to stretch in london and it is stretched here. but the problem is the only tab that you can kind of turn of this postponing surgery. as benny what we call non emergency care. but is pretty emergency if you have been waiting for your knee replacement or wisdom teeth or whatever it is so we don t like doing that and we were j ....

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