Scotland closes a large part of society from midnight



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Those who leave home will not be able to meet more than one person from another home outdoors. All churches will be closed from Friday. Everyone who can should work from home.

– I have not felt the same anxiety as now during the entire pandemic. Stay home, save lives, Scotland’s Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said in a speech Monday.

Schools will be closed for most students until February 1st.

Sturgeon also said it was important to act now:

– Delays can be devastating.

So far more than 100,000 people have been vaccinated and on Monday the first person also received their Astra Zeneca vaccine.

Everyone over 50 and everyone with The underlying diseases will be vaccinated, according to Sturgeon.

The new legally binding rules will be introduced after 1,905 new cases have been registered in Scotland in the last 24 hours. 15 percent of those tested are infected.

According to Sturgeon, the new variant of the mutated virus accounts for almost half of all new cases in Scotland.

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