Nicola Sturgeon has told people not to book a summer foreign holiday this year.

The First Minister said control of borders was a crucial part of controlling Covid-19 and preventing further outbreaks.

Ms Sturgeon said that we must do better than last year in control of people travelling in and out of the country.

Foreign travel in summer 2020 has been listed as a major factor in re introducing Covid-19 after the it was suppressed by the first lockdown.

Plans are being considered by the UK and Scottish Government for quarantine hotels for people coming into the UK.

Ms Sturgeon said the lesson of last year must be learned. She said sacrificing foreign travel was needed to get domestic normality back this year.

She said: “You should not be booking a holiday overseas.

“The best route is to suppress the virus here to as low a level as possible then control through test and protect then do much more to than we did last year to protect our borders.”

Ms Sturgeon said that we will not be able to do everything we want to ensure the virus is contained.

She repeated not going on foreign holidays and going to the pub or restaurants in the way we used to, as examples of sacrifices adults had to make.

She said it is a price that has to be paid to get children back to school and young people back to greater normality has to be a “driving priority”.