CORONAVIRUS restrictions barring around one million Scots from visiting others’ homes will be in place for at least another week, the First Minister has announced.
Speaking at today’s live coronavirus briefing, shown on the BBC despite the corporation’s decision to cease broadcasting them all, Nicola Sturgeon said there was some good news as well.
Sturgeon, who represents Glasgow Southside, said: “The good news is that the early indications suggest that the restrictions in place in Glasgow City, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire, might be helping to slow down the increase in new access.
“So that at this stage is positive.
“But the number of new cases in these parts of Greater Glasgow and Clyde, it still remains high and is still increasing, albeit we think at a slower rate than would have been the case without these restrictions being in place.”
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She said the decision had been taken with the affected local authorities to keep existing restrictions “in place for a further week” in order to continue to slow the infection rate.
These restrictions will be reviewed again at the end of that week.
The First Minister went on: “So that means people in these areas, Glasgow City, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire, should not be visiting other households at all just now.
“And of course these same restrictions now also apply, as of last Friday, in North and South Lanarkshire.
“So in all of these seven local authority areas you should not host someone in your home, unless it is for essential care purposes, and you should not visit someone else in their home, again unless it is for care purposes or delivering shopping to a vulnerable elderly person, and that is regardless of where they live.
“So I live in Glasgow city, I can’t have people in my home, but equally I can’t go and visit my parents for example, who live in Ayrshire and Arran, which is not one of these affected areas.”
Meanwhile, a 267 positive coronavirus tests have been confirmed in Scotland over the last 24 hours, the First Minister announced.
Sturgeon said that accounted for 3.6% of all people tested yesterday.
The provisional information showed 101 cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 59 were in Lanarkshire, 53 were in Lothian and 13 were in Ayrshire and Arran.
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