The chief medical officers says about 85% of cases in Scotland are thought to be the BA.2 variant.
that countries with the BA.2 sub-variant had experienced the "quickest, sharpest rises in case rates".
"Our proportion is currently about 85% just now. And you can see those countries that have BA.2 just now are experiencing the quickest, sharpest rises in case rates." Prof Smith said there were "some hopeful signs" the hospital admission rate had "begun to kind of top out just a little bit over the course of the latter end of last week".
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