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been a little bit of confusion, just before this announcement was made by public health scotland jason leitchnd authoritative voice on covid, was on the radio saying people could go to parties as long as they were careful, as long as there were precautions. but maybe that confusion should not distract from the importance of this message. public health scotland saying there is evidence that events like christmas parties can promote the spread of 0micron. this is only advice, it doesn't have the force of law, but potentially devastating for the hospitality sector here in scotland. what we don't know is whether this might spread to other events, like family gatherings around christmas. hopefully there will be some clarity on that tomorrow. we expect the first minister nicola sturgeon to give a briefing and at that stage we would hope that all parts of the scottish government will be delivering the same message about the 0micron variant. same message about the omicron variant. , ., , same message about the omicron variant. , . , ,, ., same message about the omicron variant. , ,, ., ., variant. ja

cancel your plans but get those lateral flow tests, and that echoes advice given by professor jason leitch national clinical director there, again, don't change your plans, get lateralflow again, don't change your plans, get lateral flow tests, and again, don't change your plans, get lateralflow tests, and he again, don't change your plans, get lateral flow tests, and he added again, don't change your plans, get lateralflow tests, and he added it also might be an idea for your gathering to ask people are vaccinated, so still a message about caution, at least until we know more about omicron.— caution, at least until we know more about omicron. thank you, hugh pym, with the latest — about omicron. thank you, hugh pym, with the latest thoughts. _ the latest coronavirus figures in the uk show there were just under 19,000 new infections recorded in the latest 24—hour period. on average, there were just over 43,500 new cases reported per day in the last week. the latest figures show there were over 7,500 people in hospital being treated for coronavirus yesterday. 171 deaths were recorded — that

hopefully you could hear from jason leitch. this morning.our quest meal, the restrictions mean we can maybe manage 36 people in the room and of course when it comes down to the financials of that, you have got staff, waiting staff, everything appeared now is table service, and that means those staff who get paid double time at new year, we really can't afford for that event to go ahead because it will cost us money. the whole of the hospitality industry has been devastated by these new restrictions. i think for a lot of us these restrictions came in and came on very suddenly, which i understand from a certain perspective, but what was not thought through was how these would be implemented, if there would be financial recompense for those businesses having to close and it is that uncertainty. it is very difficult, the uncertainty, across the whole of hospitality. i think i speak for absolutely everybody when i say the guidelines should have been clearer. i don't necessarily correct? that is a question for experts —— are they correct? the fina