Scotland could see "urgent and decisive" changes to lockdown restrictions to prevent the rise in coronavirus cases announced "shortly".

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman confirmed the Scottish Government will make an announcement about lockdown in the early part of next week. 

"We are at a point where what we need is to take urgent and decisive action that can break the rise in the number of cases we are seeing," Jeane Freeman told BBC Breakfast this morning.

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She added: "All the measure that we can take are on the table and are being considered."

It comes as 350 positive coronavirus cases were confirmed yesterday, the highest increase seen in four months. 

On Friday, the First Minister warned greater restrictions could be imposed as we face exponential growth of cases.

However, Ms Freeman explained we are not seeing community transmission but that there were "large clusters and outbreaks of cases in some parts of Scotland". 

"So we're working this weekend with scientific and clinical advisers to understand what might be the additional measures that we can put in place that will help us bring that R number, which in Scotland is between 1.1 and 1.4, down."

But the bulk of the spread of the virus in Scotland is from "household to household," she added. 

"So we need to look and see what more we can do to help people break that chain of transmission. 

"The key here is to introduce measures that we can justify in terms of the evidence and maintain the high level of compliance which we have here in Scotland."