Nicola Sturgeon has announced a new covid variant which may be "more transmissible" than omicron has been detected in Scotland.
The First Minister confirmed the research into the BA.2 strain, a sub-type of omicron, saying it "does appear to have the ability to out-run the main Omicron variant, which may indicate that it is more transmissible".
However, she stressed there was no evidence that it causes more severe disease than omicron.
