Emergency Cobra meeting to be held over weekend
Ms Sturgeon said Omicron is now Scotland's dominant coronavirus strain adding "the tsunami I warned about a week ago is now starting to hit us".telling Scots to restrict socialising to just three households over the Christmas periodBy slapping the country with the toughest measures in months she's piled pressure on Boris Johnson to also tighten mixing curbs in England.
In a gloomy address to MSPs she said she was "not asking anyone to cancel Christmas", but advised people to limit their socialising either side of the holiday. Ms Sturgeon said: "My key request today is this: before and immediately after Christmas, please minimise your social mixing with other households as much as you can.
"However, if you do plan on socialising, either at home or in indoor public places, we are asking that you limit the number of households represented in your group to a maximum of three. And make sure you test before you go."There have now been 15,000 confirmed cases and scientists say the variant is doubling every couple of days.He'll also reintroduce social distancing in shops and workplaces after telling people to brace for the "storm of Omicron".
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