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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....