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Dr nick fynn, the medical director of public health scotland, said... more than two million people have had a boosterjab in scotland, but public health officials say we still need to learn more about the severity of the disease caused by omicron and the effectiveness of the vaccines. speaking before the plea to postpone parties, scotland's national clinical director said there are important steps people can take to protect themselves and their families. i will be lateral flow testing before i do any dinners or if i go out. or if i have my family round. and my family will be doing lateral flow ...

Protections that are in place. thank you to everybody for doing all of these things and for what i know everybody will be seeking to do in the weeks ahead. i will move now to questions. i am sure there will be a number of questions today about both the new variant generally but the situation in particular and viable call on the chief medical officer to answer many of these questions, you will be able to give a bit more information on what you know about the variant but also of course the surveillance exercise and way right now in scotland. i will go first to katie hunterfrom now in scotland. i...

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Lateral flow test, they can be used to identify variants of consent. whether the government will scrap pcr tests altogether is still in the balance. ., ., ., ~ , balance. the ration for keeping pcr testin: in balance. the ration for keeping pcr testing in particular _ rather than lateral flow testing as it does enable you to do the genome sequencing of potential new variants, and that's been their argument for keeping it as a pcr test. but we also want to try to help people get back to life as normal, so if that case can be made four changes then obviously we will consider that. some scientist...

The argument for pcr testing has been that they are more sensitive, and so can pick—up cases earlier, and, unlike lateral flow tests, they can be used to identify variants of concern. whether the government will scrap pcr tests altogether is still in the balance. the rationale for keeping the pcr testing in particular, rather than lateral flow testing, is it does enable you to do the genome sequencing of potential new variants. and that's been the argument for keeping it as a pcr test. but look, we also want to try to help people get back to life as normal, so if the case can be made for cha...