.@Ianblackford_MP: "The UK has suffered its worst recession in 300 years - we now need a government that understands the scale of the crisis.
Yet when the economy needs maximum investment to recover, the Tories are threatening austerity cuts." #PMQs
.@Ianblackford_MP: "Families have already seen their incomes slashed under this Tory government - and now the Tories want to impose a public sector pay freeze and cuts to Universal Credit." #PMQs
.@Ianblackford_MP: "So will the Prime Minister rule out a return to Tory austerity cuts, and commit to a major fiscal stimulus of at least five per cent of GDP - or will he threaten the recovery and leave millions of people worse off?" #PMQs
.@Ianblackford_MP: "The cold hard reality is the UK has suffered the worst slump of any major economy and 120,000 people have lost their lives.
Coronavirus has exposed the deep inequalities under this broken Westminster system." #PMQs
.@Ianblackford_MP: "After a decade of Tory cuts, millions of families are in poverty & UK unemployment is soaring.
In the United States, President Biden understands what is needed - he has proposed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package to restart & renew the American economy." #PMQs
.@Ianblackford_MP: "Prime Minister- will your government follow the example of the US and boost it like Biden?
Or is the Tory plan to return to type and impose another decade of austerity?" #PMQs
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "Good afternoon, thanks for joining us. Let me give the usual update on today's statistics. 798 positive cases were reported yesterday, which is 3.9% of the total number of tests and takes the overall number of confirmed cases to 199,637."
NS: "1,018 people are currently in hospital, 58 fewer than yesterday. 93 people are in intensive care, which is the same as yesterday. I'm sorry to say that 47 additional deaths were registered in the past 24 hours."
NS: "That takes the total number of deaths registered under that measurement to 7,053."
📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "I will set out our initial priorities and an indicative timeframe for cautiously easing restrictions and restoring greater normality to our lives, as quickly as it is safe and sustainable to do so.
First though, a brief summary of the latest statistics."
📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 655.
This is 4.8% of all tests carried out, and takes the total number of cases to 198,839."
Deputy First Minister @JohnSwinney: "Good afternoon. Thank you very much for joining us today. I'm joined by the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gregor Smith, who'll be helping me to answer questions this afternoon.”
JS: "Let me start with the usual statistics. The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 885. That represents 4.4% of the total number of tests, and takes the total number of confirmed cases in Scotland to 195,839."
JS: "It's worth noting that the Office for National Statistics has just published the latest results of the Covid-19 infection survey for Scotland."
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "Thanks for joining us again. As usual, I will give a run-through of today's statistics, beginning with the total number of positive cases reported yesterday - that was 685."
NS: "Which is 3.8% of the total number of tests and means that the overall number of confirmed cases is now 194,954."
NS: "As you've heard me do many times before I will caution against reading too much into a single day's figure but obviously that's a lower test positivity than we've had for some time, and gives us further reason to be hopeful that's going very firmly in the right direction."
📣 @KateForbesMSP: "We've seen that suppressing the virus and saving lives is the fastest way to get our economy back up and running.
The danger is that if we move too quickly and don't take a cautious approach, we end up having to lock down more severely again." #bbcdn
📣 @KateForbesMSP: "There's a lot of glimmers of hope right now.
We've moved quickly to accelerate vaccinations, we are seeing the virus being suppressed, and that means we can look ahead to a way through the current restrictions." #bbcdn
📣 @KateForbesMSP: "In terms of the phasing out of lockdown, we want to prioritise schools, then family contact, and then prioritise some return to economic trading starting with non-essential trading." #bbcdn