Nicola Sturgeon has denied the number of Covid-19 deaths in Scottish care homes is double the rate of elsewhere in the UK. The First Minister was grilled by opposition leaders at FMQs today on reports Scotland was "lagging behind" when it came to testing staff and residents.
Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw claimed the Scottish approach to testing for coronavirus in care homes was an “abject failure”.
He raised the case of a home in Uddingston where 22 residents are suspected to have died from the virus.Get all the top Scottish politics news sent straight to your Inbox by signing up to our Politics newsletter.We cover Holyrood, Westminster, and local councils, with a current focus on how our governments are handling the