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Kieran Andrews, from The Times, asks for clarification about the numbers from Scotland involved at the Nike conference. He says the first minister suggested 10 today while previously it had been said that there were eight cases in Scotland connected with the event.

Nicola Strurgeon says it is her understanding that there were 10 Scots among 70 attending the conference and eight tested positive.

The Times reporter also refers to a House of Commons science and technology committee which said that, in terms of the government's response to Covid-19, capacity drove strategy rather than strategy driving capacity and wonders if that was the case for Scotland too.

Ms Sturgeon admits she has not read the report and says that "while there will be elements of that criticism that are not unfair", she thought that this particular criticism is "an over-simplification".

"I don't think, at any stage, it was one thing or the other," she says. "We tried to do the right thing at the time with the resources we had and, where we did not have all the resources, we have tried to get those resources and make decisions based on the best scientific advice."

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Scientists at the university of Northumbria have joined a research consortium backed by the government to help fight coronavirus.

The government and the scientific community are working with clinicians and scientists to map how Covid-19 spreads by analysing its genetic code.

It's hoped the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium, a £20m investment, will find breakthroughs that could help the UK respond to this and future pandemics, and save lives.

The Northumbria project team will work with NHS trusts in the region to monitor outbreaks in the North of England over the next 12 months.

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A Kent emergency planning team was involved in a pandemic flu exercise, called Exercise Cygnus, which was carried out over three days in October 2016, it has emerged.

A 57-page report that followed made several key recommendations, including boosting care home capacity and staff numbers.

The 2017 dossier also made other recommendations, including some on PPE. It is unclear what short-comings were found and to what extent they were acted on.

In April, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in an interview with LBC that lessons from Exercise Cygnus had been taken on board by the government.

But the ability to judge the preparations have been hampered by the fact the government has refused to publish the full findings of the drill.

Kent County Council's health overview and scrutiny committee chairman, Paul Bartlett, said the lessons from Exercise Cygnus should be “carefully” examined in a future meeting.

“Personal protective equipment (PPE) is an example where things have not gone as well as they should,” he said.

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• And the Great Yarmouth Mercury says campsite owners are geared up to adapt their businesses to keep customers safe as they keep their fingers crossed for a summer reopening