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Coronavirus: Nike conference kilt-fitter 'developed symptoms'
May 28, 2020
A woman who had contact with conference delegates at the centre of Scotland's first Covid-19 outbreak says she is "angry" the cases were not made public.
Gillian Russell, who fitted kilts for delegates at the Nike conference in Edinburgh, told Sky News she developed flu-like symptoms afterwards .
The February outbreak was only made public in a BBC Scotland documentary.
The first minister has said details were not made public at the time to protect patient confidentiality.
Ms Russell, 43, told Sky News: "I'm quite angry and upset about it. I don't like the thought that I could have possibly infected someone without my knowledge. We were never informed.
"The worry is that somebody is actually infected and, possibly, died. Maybe not directly through contact with me but directly through contact via me."
Disclosure: Scotland’s Lockdown
Scotland's first official Covid-19 case was announced on 1 March after a positive test was confirmed by NHS Tayside .
Details of the outbreak at the conference in the Hilton Carlton Hotel were first revealed in a BBC Scotland Disclosure documentary.
The investigation discovered that one of the 70 Nike employees from across the world who attended the conference on 26 and 27 February already had the virus.
This person infected many of their fellow delegates. Of the 25 confirmed cases linked to the event, eight were residents of Scotland.
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