Good evening folks,

We hope you are all well and staying safe, and managing to enjoy the good weather during the windows of permitted activity outdoors. 

It's important that we continue to practice social distancing and avoid unnecessary travel and excursions - harder to do when it's nice outside, but just as vital.

It can, and will, save lives. 

Today, we are asking for you to get involved in our #healthheroes campaign. We want you to shout about your friends, neighbours, or family members who are frontline NHS workers helping us through the pandemic - the superheroes without capes. Tell us who they are, what they do, and why they mean so much to you.

We want to highlight their incredible contribution and let everyone know how much they are valued and how much we appreciate their dedication and selflessness.

You can find out more about how to celebrate your #healthheroes on our website >>>

Keep staying safe and healthy,

Your Scotsman team

Here are the latest headlines:

• There are now 3,961 positive coronavirus cases in Scotland, while 222 people are now known to have died with the virus
• 199 Scots are in intensive care recovering from COVID-19
• The 149th Open Championship has been cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis and will now be played in July next year - the first time the historic golf tournament has been cancelled since 1945
• First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has spoken about the resignation of Scotland's former Chief Medical Officer saying she was not prepared to 'take the risk' of Dr Catherine Calderwood remaining in post and having a negative impact on confidence and trust in the Scottish Government
• A health care worker from West Dunbartonshire area died with COVID-19
• Work on construction sites should stop immediately - unless the projects are 'crucial to the health and welfare of the country' and thus deemed essential, the Scottish Government has said
• Author JK Rowling has said she has fully recovered after suffering from 'all the symptoms' of COVID-19, taking advice from her doctor husband on how to deal with respiratory issues
• Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in hospital having been admitted with "persistent symptoms" but Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab insists Johnson is still in charge
• The UK lockdown is holding back hospital admissions, according to a key government adviser, but it is too early to tell when restrictions may end - or when the peak of cases will be
• The rate of new infections has fallen in Spain and Italy in recent days - suggesting lockdowns are having an effect