Quaratine spot checks dropping

The percentage of spot checks carried out on people required to quarantine on entry to Scotland has dropped to 8.7 percent, figures indicate.

Scottish Liberal Democrat analysis of Public Health Scotland’ s most recent statistics shows of the 9,223 people who were required to quarantine in the week ending August 30, 801 were called by the National Contact Tracing Centre.

The percentage contacted in this way has fallen for three weeks, from 10.3 per cent the previous week and 14 per cent before that.

Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said the situation is “ridiculous” and risks public safety.

A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: ““The National Contact Tracing Centre has been exceeding our target. The percentage will fluctuate, depending on the number of people requiring to quarantine.”