Nicola Sturgeon will make her weekly statement on coronavirus today as Omicron restrictions in Scotland are finally scrapped.
Social distancing rules in pubs and restaurants were lifted on Monday while nightclubs can now reopen for the first time in a month.
The First Minister will update MSPs later today on the latest steps in the country's fight against coronavirus.
The SNP leader is expected to provide more detail on a revised strategic framework” to move Scotland to a “less restrictive” society in managing the impacts of the pandemic.
Sturgeon revealed earlier this month a “need to continue to adapt our thinking about how to manage the virus” and “become more resilient to it in future”.
It comes as Scottish Labour yesterday called for clear “triggers” for reimposing restrictions if they are needed, with agreed support for people and businesses and improved contact tracing.
Anas Sarwar set out his party’s plan for “living with Covid” as restrictions introduced to tackle Omicron are eased as he criticised the Scottish Government for its “ad-hoc decision making”.
He wanted to avoid any more restrictions and predicted there would not be any more complete national lockdowns.
Sarawar he argued that, if more variants emerge, there should be an agreed system across the UK where certain hospitalisation levels, infection rates, number of deaths or health worker absences are used so imposing restriction “doesn’t become a political football”.
Speaking alongside the Labour leader yesterday, hospitality chief Stephen Montgomery said the decision by Public Health Scotland ordering the cancellation of Christmas parties and guidance for people to avoid crowded spaced “crippled the sector”.
Describing the decision as “probably the hardest of the restrictions we faced”, Montgomery claimed the Christmas restrictions were estimated to have cost the hospitality sector in Scotland more than £1 billion and he now expects it to be between three and five years before the industry fully recovers.
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