First Minister @NicolaSturgeon on @itvpeston: "Overall levels of the infection are broadly comparable to England and quite a bit lower, at this stage, to Wales and Northern Ireland."
NS: "Scottish schools went back some weeks before schools in England and our universities returned a couple of weeks further than elsewhere. In universities we've been quite aggressively testing."
NS: "Whatever decision you take to reduce harm in one area, you increase it in another area. We know it's really important for the education of young people to have them back in university."
NS: "Everyone has to be very mindful of trying to limit the normal interactions we normally value in our everyday lives, to try and prevent the virus from jumping person to person, household to household."
NS: "It comes down to these very basic, although very tough, restrictions that we need to abide by."
NS: "We all need to try our hardest to communicate rules to people clearly, to understand what we're asking people to do, and make sure we're clearly explaining that."
NS: "We've got to contingency plan. What I can say with certainty is we want exams to go ahead this year, but we don't know, as we go into winter, just what disruption there might be to education."
NS: "I think unemployment is going to rise, and in some respects, given the shock to the economy, that's not going to be a surprise to people - but it is extremely concerning."
NS: "My big concern is there could be a rise in unemployment that could be avoidable. Many commentators say the Chancellor's measures do not go far enough to stop a wave of redundancies that could be avoided if a more generous scheme was in place."
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