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Coronavirus news - live: ‘Not yet safe’ to lift Aberdeen lockdown, warns Sturgeon as Hancock says no plans to make masks compulsory at work

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Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said it is not yet safe to lift coronavirus restrictions in Aberdeen after two weeks of local lockdown following the discovery of a cluster of infections in the area.

Ms Sturgeon insisted that the country was not experiencing a second wave of Covid-19 despite the recent rise in daily cases and argued that Scotland was simply seeing "a spike in the first wave" of cases.

It came as Matt Hancock, the UK's health secretary, said there were no plans in place to make face coverings compulsory at work after France ruled that coverings must be worn in most workplaces.

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