BBC News: Covid in Scotland: Warning over restrictions as cases hit new high (24 Aug 2021)
“Nicola Sturgeon has said she cannot rule out the reintroduction of some Covid restrictions as the number of daily cases reached a record high.
The first minister said the country was at another “fragile and pivotal moment” in the pandemic.
New cases in Scotland have more than doubled over the past week, and that is one of the sharpest rises we have experienced at any point during the pandemic,” she said.
She said the latest daily figure was the largest recorded in a single day “
I think the numbers are going up in most countries of Europe and U.S.A. and Canada and New Zealand and Australia and Japan.
This is not over yet.