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We need to talk about Covid again.

Nicola Sturgeon is set to update MSPs on the Covid situation in Scotland on Tuesday. Her statement today comes after a series of high daily case numbers recorded in recent weeks.

This morning we look at 12 areas in Scotland with the highest coronavirus rates according to the latest government figures.

Debate is raging around whether vaccines should be given to 12 to 15-year-olds as a means to curb rising cases. Education unions and young people’s groups have declared schools will be made safer after the UK’s chief medical officers recommended that healthy children aged between 12 and 15 should be offered one Covid vaccine dose.

Meanwhile, the UK Government is to set out plans for Covid booster jabs as ministers unveil their blueprint for “living with the virus” through the winter.

It is expected all over 50s will be offered a third jab – starting with the over 70s and the most vulnerable.The shot of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be administered at least six months after the second dose amid concerns the protection it gives to older people fades over time.

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