The ban on visiting other households is to be reviewed today and Nicola Sturgeon will gives the result to the Scottish Parliament via video link.

The First Minister is to update on the ban on household gatherings imposed last month and on the options available after the two weeks of extra restrictions come to an end and also to on the three-weekly review.

However, she said the restrictions are not about to be lifted.

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Ms Sturgeon reported 15 new deaths, yesterday, of people who had tested positive for coronavirus.

And she said people can expect the rules will be staying in place for longer.

Ms Sturgeon said: “As you might expect, we are unlikely, very unlikely to announce any changes or easing of the current rules on household gatherings.

“I will however say a bit more to parliament about new rules on face coverings, and about our options once the current two-week period of additional restrictions ends on 25 October.”

The latest statistics showed there were 1429 new positive tests with 537 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

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The latest statistics showed there were 1429 new positive tests carried out int eh last 24 hours taking the total number of positive cases to 42,685.

She said 537 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 327 in Lanarkshire, 239 in Lothian and 92 in Ayrshire and Arran. 

There were 570 people in hospital, an increase of 43 and 49 people were in intensive care, an increase of 14.

Ms Sturgeon said that the deaths were not all among the very old.

She said: “half of the 15 deaths that I’ve just reported are of people under the age of 80 – a small number of them are of people under the age of 60. Please do not ever think that this virus only poses a risk to the lives of the very elderly – it poses a risk to all of us and I’m asking everybody again to take and treat that risk extremely seriously.”