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Chris McCall

Nicola Sturgeon says possible cluster of Covid cases in Greater Glasgow being investigated

Nicola Sturgeon has announced health bosses are investigating whether a possible cluster of Covid cases has broken out in the Greater Glasgow area.

The First Minister said there were 17 confirmed cases in Scotland's largest health board yesterday - which includes the city as well as the neighbouring council areas of Renfrewshire and Inverclyde.

It comes as Aberdeen enters its first full day of local lockdown after the number of infections in the city rocketed in recent days.

The number of people linked to the outbreak in the Granite City now stands at 79 - up 25 on yesterday.  A further 30 cases are under investigation.

Speaking at her daily media briefing, Sturgeon said she was not yet able to give a breakdown of the reported cases in the Greater Glasgow area.

But she said an increasing proportion of cases across the country were among the under-40s.

The SNP leader insisted she was "not blaming young people" and said it was understandable why people wanted to socialise after four months of lockdown.

Asked if ministers were considering banning pub crawls, Sturgeon said the Scottish Government had not "reached a view" on the matter.

But she added a tightening of restrictions on how bars and restaurants operate was under "active consideration".

The Record revealed today one Glasgow pub was hit by coronavirus after a customer came forward as testing positive.

The Swinton, on the city's Swinton Road, in Ballieston, said they had tested all staff for the virus after a punter told them of his test result.

In a statement the bar said that all of their staff had tested negative and pointed to improved safety measures.

A previous cluster of 17 cases in the Greater Glasgow health board last month was traced to Inverclyde.

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