Isolation for household contacts could also be scrapped - provided contacts receive a negative PCR result. Ms Sturgeon is not expected to announce any further restrictions, despite 20,217 new Covid cases - the highest figure since records began - being reported in Scotland on Tuesday. This comes as Boris Johnson announced on Tuesday that England's Plan B restrictions are enough to get the country through the Omicron wave, despite stating that the NHS will likely be "temporarily overwhelmed".

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