From BBC Scotland an hour ago:
An enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after the Brazilian variant of Covid-19 was detected in Scotland. Three Scottish residents tested positive for the new strain after flying into Aberdeen from Brazil, via Paris and London. Other passengers who were on the same flight from London are now being contacted. Experts believe this variant (P1) – first detected in northern Brazil in January – could be more contagious. Three other cases have also been detected in England, but they are not linked to the Scottish cases. Officials are still trying to track down one of those who tested positive for the new variant in England. Jillian Evans, head of health intelligence at NHS Grampian, said the three Scottish travellers had arrived in Aberdeen in early February, before new rules on hotel quarantine came into force. She told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland programme they had isolated together for 10 days after arrival in accommodation provided by their employer. They tested positive while in isolation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56236750
This is the inevitable consequence of a quarantine system that cannot work. The Institute for Government is clear on this:
The government has said the purpose of this policy is to “reduce the risk of a new variant of the virus being transmitted from someone coming into the UK” and to “protect the public and our world-class vaccination programme” from variants against which existing vaccines might prove to be ineffective. However, it has not been clear about whether it wants merely to reduce the number of infected travellers mixing in the community – and if so, by how much – or if its goal is to stop variants of concern entering the country altogether. It is difficult to see how a selective quarantine system could achieve the latter. As SAGE has pointed out, there would be a time lag between a new variant arising and the government detecting it and shutting down travel from the relevant country.
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/hotel-quarantine
Scotland effective test, trace and isolate system has probably shut this one down, but it will not be the last.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
If ever their was proof positive for the need for Independence and the ability to fully control our Borders this is it
Norway has and a very long land border with Sweden who just like England let the virus rip
But Norway quickly took full control and closed its border
A few stats for you
England has highest death rate in the World
And 1604 % higher than Norway
England has the 18th highest case nos
Scotland 23 rd for death rate
And
59th for case nos
These figs.speak volumes
Over to you Voters
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If only the ‘voters’ had these facts to hand….
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The government in England is encouraging a Covid trail with it’s “red list” country nonsense where people will try to evade quarantine (compulsory that is) by travelling convoluted routes to get into the country.
Just another example of the Tories putting the economy ahead of health.
They should listen more to scientific advice and less to their revolting back benchers.
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bringiton
Just pay attention to all the news bulletins
And all are making sure that Scotland is dragged in and down with England
All in a very not so subtle but what they think is a clever way
Only now after 2 days of the news of the variant loose and no doubt spreading fast in England are they allowing epidemiologist experts speak
If this variant really gets a grip
Just like their Kent one which by far is now totally dominant with over 80 % of new cases
If the Brazilian mutant has considerable vaccine resistance
Then it will cost £ Billions to re vaccinate
And continuation of severe lock down measures
History will judge Boris the Terrible and his merry band of rogues as presiding over the complete, total collapse of once a great Imperial power into a insignificant bankrupt
Nation who made every wrong move by clinging to their delusional views of who and what they have become
I find all this astounding as to how supposedly
Clever people are actually quite the reverse
History will tell this sordid story as a explanatory example of
How NOT to do things, as a lesson for all never to repeat
This virus is the final sinking of the Sun on the horizon and never to rise again for England
And as M.Caine sang and belted out in the film Little Voice, when his dreams of riches
Were laid to waste
It is Oveeeeeer
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Last weekend, New Scientist magazine had an article “England’s flawed quarantine plan” – and it was England (and Wales) because the article pointed out that Scotland had a different system, and did not mention NI.
The gist of the piece was that “the decision that visitors from only some countries must isolate in hotels ignores scientific advice and is bound to fail.”
Mr Hancock had said that he was drawing on the experience of Australia, which has had strict quarantine rules in all states since the pandemic began and has had very few infections and even fewer deaths. The article quotes various academics from different Australian Universities. The article states that the ‘red list’ decisions are based on political considerations and not scientific ones and, citing the US as an example, the chances of a new variant being imported are high. Another academic states that given the already enormous infections the UK has experienced the action is shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
More importantly, it reports that the decision Hancock has taken is contrary to what SAGE recommended.
Today, we see the lie exposed with the importation of six cases of a variant from Brazil, by people who had travelled from a ‘red list’ country via non-red list country, which was the reason the SG, to the contempt of the braying media, chose its stricter policy. Fortunately, those arriving in Scotland have adopted a sensible attitude and tracing appears to have identified all potential cases. However, for the cases in England, there is a probability of escape of the virus into the population, because the tracing has failed to locate one of the passengers from Brazil.
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The airports should have been quarantined a year ago. Less people would have died. The Tories appalling mismanagement of the pandemic means thousands more people have died.
The measures the Scottish Gov put in means more people have been tested, traced and isolated.
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Gordon
In lay man terms only to assist all in assessing the pulp pumped out by in main ABC ( BBC )
And all the rest of MSM who know full well
That the ABC are the alpha dog in the propaganda wolf pack
This Brazilian variant is in lay terms is a Fold 2
Mutation
That is it has 2 mutations, one from the S.African variant
Brazil became aware of it when 1000,s of those who previously caught covid, became infected again
This in turns means that this fold 2 mutant
Had won the lottery and able to outwit your immune system
Now if the variant can do so with previous cases
It only takes it to go one step further to a fold 3 mutation
Then the matter becomes extremely serious
Further more it is already highly likely that it will have a marked effect upon the efficacy of current
Vaccines
Believe me it is with 100% certainty that Boris the Terrible was made well aware of all I speak of here,whilst he was formulating his governments response to it along with ending/ easing of lock down
But as usual he true to character and elected to gamble
Well the roulette wheel is about to stop spinning and the ball land into what Number
Comes up
No more bets please
Me thinks Boris,s chips are about to be raked off the table by this viral groupier
He ain’t got many chips left and shall have to vacate the premises soon.Not for his or our own sake but one of for Humanity as a whole
The pages of the history book are now being written and turned for the next blank page
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If Scotland has closed it down and England has not
SOULD WE BE CLOSING OUR BORDER ENTRY POINTS
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