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Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon press conference August 24th; SCOTLAND: Edinburgh: St Andrew's House: INT Nicola Sturgeon MSP (First Minister of Scotland) press conference opening statement SOT part 2 of 3. - If business owners in Aberdeen are in any doubt about the status of their premises, they should contact Aberdeen Council for further information. I am sure that the lifting of restrictions – after what must have felt like a long 19 days – will be very welcome in Aberdeen. I want to thank all partners in Aberdeen for working so co-operatively with us during a very difficult time. I want to specifically thank local health protection teams for the immense amount of work that they have done - and continue to do – to make sure that this outbreak is under control. And most of all, I want to thank the people of Aberdeen. These restrictions have been effective in beating back this outbreak for the simple reason that you have all complied very well with them - and that’s also the reason that we are now able to lift the restrictions. I know how difficult this last two and a half week period must have been for everybody in the city and you have my grateful thanks for that compliance. I now want to touch on today’s figures, and specifically the figures for Tayside. As I mentioned earlier and as we’ve been reporting over the past few days, we’re currently dealing with a major cluster of cases based around the 2 Sisters poultry processing factory in Coupar Angus. As of yesterday, there were 110 positive cases linked to that cluster – 96 were employees of the factory, and 14 were contacts of theirs. The factory remains closed, and contact tracing continues. This is a very significant outbreak, and I would expect to see the number of cases rise even further. Over the last 5 days, the mobile testing unit at the Two Sisters plant has tested almost 900 people – and other testing sites in Dundee, Forfar and Perth have tested more than 1600 people....