We have some serious situations in the northeast, where three hospitals have currently declared "Code Black" because they're overstretched with admissions. They're Raigmore in Inverness, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin (Elgin has been a hotspot for a few weeks). Hospitals in other areas are also in danger of being overstretched:
https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/covid-scotland-two-more-scottish-hospitals-declare-code-black-as-sturgeon-says-lockdown-easing-not-set-in-stone-3300176
We've yet to see the full fallout from cases arising from football fans visiting London en masse and bringing back the Delta variant as a souvenir and Rangers fans basically rioting in Glasgow's George Square a few weeks ago to celebrate their team's success.
Holidaymakers from outside Scotland are also adding to the caseload, and this is likely to continue into the summer as we're unlikely to be able to restrict such movements to any meaningful degree.
The disturbing trend is that patients are tending to be younger.
Covid in Scotland: Dates for lifting restrictions 'not set in stone'
The first minister said it would not be responsible to have a guaranteed timetable in the face of the virus, after another day of high case numbers.
Scotland is due to move to level zero on 19 July, before dropping almost all restrictions on 9 August.
However Ms Sturgeon said she would look very carefully at the latest data before confirming this would happen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-57754394
Whatever the Scottish government decides, I'm likely to continue masking and restricting my social mixing for quite some time to come. I haven't restrained myself for this long only to risk falling foul of whatever new variants may do the rounds in the next few weeks and months.
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