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| geemong | 25 Oct 2021 - 09:22:11 |
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Health secretary admits 'absolutely' a risk of Covid spike after COP26 Scotland's health secretary says there is "absolutely a risk" of Covid cases rising after the COP26 summit in Glasgow. "flow" usually happens when SLOT everything pontoons between "stress" and "reward", if you don't win, it often frustrates you and the bully wants to quit. Humza Yousaf said he expects to see a spike in cases after 25,000 delegates descend on the city in a week's time. Mr Yousaf said the Scottish government was not currently considering imposing more restrictions. He also stressed that there were many mitigations in place to prevent Covid being transmitted at the conference. Speaking on BBC One's The Sunday Show Mr Yousaf said that the Scottish government was doing everything it could to limit transmission of the virus during the 12 days of the summit. He said: "We have been working with the UK government and the United Nations (UN) to make COP as safe as we possibly can. "Mitigations like daily testing in the blue zone, very strict isolation protocols in place, face coverings being worn in the blue zone and so on. We will do everything we possibly can to make the event because we recognise the climate emergency itself is the biggest public health emergency and crisis that we face globally." He said: "There is no public health expert in the world who would say there is no risk in the midst of a global pandemic to have tens of thousand of people descending onto largely one city so there is absolutely a risk of Covid cases rising thereafter but we will do everything we can to mitigate that. "Of course we would expect there to be positive cases linked to COP but we are also very, very assured by the protocols we have got in place to be able to isolate those cases as best as we possibly can." The UK government has insisted every measure is being taken to mitigate risk. COP President Alok Sharma told BBC Scotland's No Hot Air podcast: "People want to know we are taking every measure to ensure that COP26 is safe for the participants and also, really importantly, for the people of Glasgow. That is why we have a detailed regime in terms of safety. "People will be tested every day before they come into the venue. If they are found to be positive they will have to self-isolate. "They will be wearing masks moving around the venue, we will have rigorous cleaning regimes in place and social distancing. "We also made an offer to any accredited delegate who wasn't able to get vaccinated in their home nation to say we would support them in that vaccination process." |
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