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Maree Todd

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Party Scottish National Party
Previous positionMember of the Scottish Parliament
Position Member of the Scottish Parliament
Education Robert Gordon University
First minist Nicola Sturgeon
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Maree Todd is a Scottish National Party politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross since May 2021. She was previously an MSP for the Highlands and Islands from the election in May 2016.

Covid: Sturgeon to set out Scotland's plans and UK finances improve

Feb 16,2020 6:47 am

Here are five things You need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update For You this evening.

1. Sturgeon to unveil plans for living with Covid

Nicola Sturgeon is to set out in a " much less restrictive" way, saying she aims to maintain " vigilance" against future outbreaks En Route to normality. But the Westminster government's decision to scrap its UK-wide free mass Testing system from 1 April raises questions, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson appearing to suggest Scotland would have to fund any continued free Testing from existing budgets.

2. Mass vaccination centres 'not needed' for boosters

for The Next roll-out of the Covid jab, according to The Head of the vaccine programme in Northern Ireland . Patricia Donnelly says additional jabs can be facilitated by GPs, community pharmacies and health trusts, with the roll-out of the booster to about 155,000 eligible people expected to begin in April.

3. An axe has been taken to Testing - Does it matter?

" Test , Test , Test - The World Health Organization famously recommended at the start of the pandemic, " says our health correspondent Nick Triggle. " And that is just what the UK did, quickly growing one of the biggest Covid Testing infrastructures in the The World . " But what are the implications of ministers announcing mass Testing in England will end by 1 April? Read.

4. Alcohol deaths increased during pandemic

in 2020, as the pandemic took hold, when compared wtih the annual average for the previous three years, according to Public Health Scotland figures. It said The Rise was driven particularly by men and those aged 45 to 64, which already had some of the highest alcohol-specific death rates before the pandemic. Scotland's Public Health Minister Maree Todd says the government has " taken action to assist those who are drinking at harmful levels".

5. UK finances improve in January as tax revenues grow

There are more signs of the UK economy recovering from The Shock of the pandemic. The, with tax revenues growing as The Nation re-opened after lockdown, compared with a £2. 5bn deficit in January 2021. However, The Surplus was still £7bn smaller than in January 2020, before the pandemic, according to The Office for National Statistics.

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Source of news: bbc.com

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