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Craig Williams

Daily live coverage of Nicola Sturgeon's coronavirus briefings to be stopped by BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland have announced that it will no longer cover all of Nicola Sturgeon's daily coronavirus briefings from Edinburgh.

The channel will stop broadcasting the Scottish Government's Covid-19 daily updates live, and instead decide on whether to do so as of Monday next week based on “editorial merit”.

People will still be able to stream the briefings live on the BBC Scotland website for the forseeable future, with the briefings also broadcast live via the Scottish Government's official twitter account.

The briefings are currently shown live on both BBC One Scotland and the BBC Scotland channel, with some coverage also included as part of BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live programme.

The broadcaster stressed it will take a "consistent approach to coverage of the various government briefings across the UK nations".

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