Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon to give lockdown update today as Glasgow cases rise again

The First Minister will give the update to the Scottish Parliament this afternoon.

She is due to make a statement in Holyrood around 2.15 pm.

The whole of Scotland was planned to move down into level 1 from next Monday, June 28 but the First Minister indicated last week the easing was expected to be paused for at least three weeks as cases are rising across the country.

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In Glasgow the rate of positive cases has increased over the last week according to the latest seven day figures.

For the seven days up to June 18, last Friday there were 170.9 positive cases reported per 100,000 population.

It was a total of 1082 cases in the city, taking it back through the 1000 mark.

It is an increase from the previous week when there were 992 cases, a rate of 156.7 per 100,000 people.

Glasgow is not the highest council area in Scotland for positive covid-19 cases.

There are six local authority areas with a higher rate than the city.

Dundee is highest, with 303 cases per 100,000 population in the last week. Followed by Edinburgh, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and East Lothian all above 200 per 100,000 people.

In Glasgow the highest areas with more than 400,per 100,000 population were City Centre West, with 24 cases, Darnley North, with 15,  Nitshill with 28 and Whiteinch with 16.

There were 13 areas with between zero and two cases reported, and where the virus is considered suppressed.

They were Baillieston West, Carmunnock South, Drumchapel South, Glasgow Harbour/Partick South, Knightswood East, Knightswood Park West, Knightswood West, Lansgide, Milton East, Pollokshields West and Sighthill.

Across Scotland positive cases have been increasing to the latest rate of 139per 100,000 with 7643 new cases in the last seven days reported.

It is an increase from 114.5 per 100,000 population and 6256 new cases in the previous seven days.

The number of hospital admissions and patients in intensive care with covid has not increased in line with the rise in cases.

For the last seven days there were an average of 28 new admissions a day. The week before it was 27.

For ICU admissions, the last week was an average of 2.3 a day compared to 2 the previous week.

Last Friday, Sturgeon said: “It is unlikely, although I will confirm this in Parliament next Tuesday, but it is unlikely that we will move any part of the country down a level at the next review point.”

Instead, she said there was hope that it could be done in July.