Nicola Sturgeon will make a statement to the Scottish Parliament tomorrow on whether an extended lockdown will be imposed.

The First Minister said the Scottish cabinet will meet on Tuesday morning and will make a decision.

She said she would outline “where we are and whether we need to extend the lockdown restrictions to suppress the virus.”

Ms Sturgeon said it was about extending the duration rather than extending the restrictions.

The current restrictions are due to last until January 31.

But Ms Sturgeon said she would give an update on whether it has to be for longer.

She announced the daily statistics which showed a continued rise of the number of people in hospital with Covid-19.

There were 1429 new cases reported including 451 in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.

There were 1959 in hospital an increase of 41 and there were 146 in intensive care a decrease of 1.

Ms Sturgeon said that the vaccination programme was “rapidly expanding” and that mor than a quarter of a million people have now had the first does.

There have been 264,991 vaccinations carried out.

The First Minister said that all people in priority groups 1 and 2 would be vaccinated by the start of February, all in groups 3 and 4 which is all over 70 and the clinically extremely vulnerable by the middle of February and all over 65s by the beginning of March.

She said the aim was to vaccinate all over 50s by early May and then the programme would move on to the rest of the adult population.