Nicola Sturgeon said she will set out the next stage of lockdown and efforts to tackle coronavirus tomorrow when the restrictions are reviewed.

The current rules are in place until at least the middle of this month.

The First Minister said the statement will set out latest thinking on how much longer the restrictions will have to continue.

And she said it would include detail on other steps the Government planning to take to keep it under control.

Ms Sturgeon said: "The current lockdown is working. It is helping to reduce the number of cases and we should take encouragement from that but cases are still too high.

"The vaccine is the most important tool at our disposal but even with the vaccine programme there is more we need to do.

"We need to do all we can to prevent new strains entering the country. The threat of new variants remains a real one."

Ms Sturgeon said the statement will cover some of the measures that will be taken to control covid as well as suppress it.

She said: "To reduce risk of virus entering country we have agreed to introduce supervised quarantine."

Tomorrow, she said would include more information "on the extent we intent to operate supervised quarantine".

She also said she would set out the "up to date thinking how we may start to resume learning and childcare".

Ms Sturgeon gave an update on the vaccination programme. She said 575,897 have had first dose.

That includes 98% of older care home residents and 88% of staff in care homes have had first dose.

She said 80% of those over 80 in community have had a first dose.

Ms Sturgeon said: "We are ahead of schedule to complete that group by Friday and already 14% of over 75s have been vaccinated."

The daily statistics showed there were another 848 positive cases of Coronavirus recorded. Of the total 244 were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde and 167 in Lanarkshire. 1954.

There were people in 1954 hospital with Covid-19. Another six deaths were registered. Since Friday 72 deaths have been registered.