Thread by @theSNP

First Minister @NicolaSturgeon at #FMQs: "We will set out measures later today about prevention - about making sure that all of the guidance is being properly implemented on campus and in student accommodation."

NS: "The situation at universities is difficult, not least for those students who are being asked to isolate. There's obviously a welfare issue I know universities are very alive to and take very seriously." #FMQs

NS: "One thing I want to stress though, and it can be a difficult issue for people to grasp, but the fact we do have a number of positive cases identified - and I would agree we expect that to increase - and a number of students isolating, is Test & Protect working." #FMQs

NS: "The essence of Test & Protect is making sure that, where people have symptoms, they are tested - students are being tested - they are identified if they are positive and then guidance given to isolate." #FMQs

NS: "Bookings open today for the new walk-in centre in Aberdeen, and bookings open tomorrow for a centre in Edinburgh. New sites are being identified currently forDundee. There'll be a second Glasgow centre opening on October 2nd and one in Stirling on Monday 5th October." #FMQs

NS: "But it's important to say there's also mobile testing capacity. There's been a mobile testing unit at Abertay University in the last day or so. There's one at the Murano Student Village at Glasgow University, where a lot of the positive cases are as of now." #FMQs

NS: "An important point to make is there is no issue of students who are symptomatic getting tested quickly and getting those results. Yesterday at the Glasgow walk-through centre they tested almost 300 students and still had some capacity left at the end of the day." #FMQs

NS: "We continue to make sure that the right things are done but I want to give an assurance that testing capacity is available and is being accessed and utilised." #FMQs

NS: "Don't have house parties, don't socialise outside your own household group, and make sure you have Protect Scotland downloaded onto your phone and make sure you are following all of the FACTS advice. That's my appeal to every student across the country." #FMQs

NS: "The worst thing any of us could do right now was unfairly and unjustifiably undermine confidence in Test & Protect because it's so important that people across the country - including students - have confidence. And that confidence right now is justified." #FMQs

NS: "If Richard Leonard, as I'm sure he is, is really concerned about the welfare of students and not increasing the already anxious situation they're in - I'm going to say this to Richard Leonard - I think he'd have asked that in a very different way." #FMQs

NS: "Because talking right now about things like students not allowed to go home for Christmas - that is not helping anybody. We all have to work right now to make sure that we deal with, cope with this infectious virus, part of a global pandemic, in the best way possible." #FMQs

NS: "I wish, more than anything else, I could snap my fingers and make it go away. I can't. This is a global pandemic. We need to deal with it properly and systematically, with all of us playing our part." #FMQs

NS: "International students have the obligation to quarantine. The reason for that as opposed to testing is that, while no system is absolutely perfect..." #FMQs

NS: "..it is felt quarantine is more effective because if you test somebody who tests negative, it doesn't mean they don't have the virus. It may just mean they're in the incubation period. Quarantine for 14 days is a more effective way of protecting against importation." #FMQs

NS: "The most important thing we need to do is get symptomatic students tested, and we are doing that, and where they are positive, giving the right advice about isolation to their contacts." #FMQs

NS: "That is what is happening right now and that is why the numbers we are looking at right now are as high - because that system is working the way it's intended to." #FMQs