Speculation has mounted that the Scottish Government will extend the Covid vaccine passport scheme to include more venues. But businesses fear this could "place thousands of firms and jobs at risk" with a total of 65 percent of companies surveyed by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce against the passport scheme. This comes as Scotland’s chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith warned that the country was “now in a period of growth of COVID-19 cases again”.

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