The health secretary said this morning that the priority was to continue the work on containment

Two more case of coronavirus have been confirmed in Scotland, taking the total number of people known to be infected to three.

Jeane Freeman, the health secretary, said this morning that it was too early to say in which part of the country the two new infected individuals had been detected. One person from Tayside is already in isolation.

“Overnight we were informed of two more cases. Obviously at this point . . . there is nothing more that I can say about that. We will release more information later today,” Ms Freeman told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland.

She said that the location of the two new cases was being temporarily withheld to ensure “patient confidentiality and to ensure we get the