Covid: 11 Scottish areas with the highest coronavirus rates including West Lothian and Edinburgh as Nicola Sturgeon announces more restrictionsCovid: 11 Scottish areas with the highest coronavirus rates including West Lothian and Edinburgh as Nicola Sturgeon announces more restrictions
Covid: 11 Scottish areas with the highest coronavirus rates including West Lothian and Edinburgh as Nicola Sturgeon announces more restrictions

Covid: 11 Scottish areas with the highest coronavirus rates including West Lothian and Edinburgh as Nicola Sturgeon announces more restrictions

Here are the 11 areas in Scotland with the highest coronavirus rates as Nicola Sturgeon announces three weeks of restrictions from Boxing Day.

The data breaks down the number of positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people, according to council area.

It follows Nicola Sturgeon announcing that restrictions will be tightened on December 26 in a bid to slow down the spread of the Omicron variant.

West Lothian is top of the list having recorded 1,895 cases of coronavirus in the last seven days.

Here are the 11 areas in Scotland with the most new coronavirus cases between December 12 and December 18.

West Lothian is top of the list having recorded 1,895 cases of coronavirus in the last seven days.

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