top 10 covid hot spots last week. The Scottish Labour leader wants Holyrood to be recalled as he warned that the exit from the pandemic “rests on a knife edge”.
All of Scotland's council areas are due to be placed at Level 0 of lockdown as of July 19, with social distancing rules abolished by August 9.
Nicola Sturgeon said last week she was confident those dates could still be met, despite the region with highest number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in Europe being Tayside - with 1,002 recorded over the previous fortnight as of June 30.
In second place was Lothian with 990 recorded cases per 100,000 people, then Greater Glasgow with 735. Other Scottish regions in the top ten include Ayrshire and Arran (579), Lanarkshire (571) and.