Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube: / @thelondonstandard Scotland is “not currently considering a circuit-breaker lockdown” despite a record number of new Covid-19 cases and a steep rise in patients in hospital with the virus, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The First Minister told a coronavirus briefing that 6,835 new cases had been reported in the past 24 hours – the second time in a week that a record, new, daily figure has been reported.