Almost 2,000 Covid cases linked to Euro matches, says Public Health Scotland

Jun 30, 2021

Ginny Sanderson

Engagement journalist

Good afternoon,

This is a coronavirus update from The Scotsman.

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	Almost 2,000 coronavirus cases linked to Euro match attendance according to Public Health Scotland

	A new Public Health Scotland report has linked almost 2,000 positive Covid cases to Euro 2020 match attendance.

Almost 2,000 new cases linked to Euros matches

A new report has linked almost 2,000 positive Covid cases in Scotland to Euro 2020 match attendance.

The majority of these cases were connected to travelling to the England-Scotland match in London.

Nine of every 10 cases was male, the Public Health Scotland report found.

Record number of positive cases in Scotland

It comes as, for the second day in the row, Scotland has recorded the highest number of new Covid cases since the start of the pandemic.

Announcing these figures, Nicola Sturgeon said the impact of the vaccine is doing the work we 'needed heavy restrictions to do' in the first wave.

But the First Minister said we must 'take care' as a significan per cent of the population is still not fully vaccinated.

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