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Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson urged the public to come together and help each other through a tough new push to defeat the deadly Covid-19.
The Prime Minister and Prime Minister made a televised speech separately, with the same emotional appeal, as the four nations of the United Kingdom prepare new restrictions on ordinary life, expected to last six months.
Sturgeon thanked the Scots for months of effort to end the infections, but cautioned that “the challenge is once again more difficult.”
In a short statement, he said: “I know this has all been incredibly difficult, and six months later they only get harder. But never forget that humanity has gone through even greater challenges than this. And even if you don’t feel that way now, this virus It will pass. It won’t last forever and someday, hopefully soon, we’ll be looking back, not living through it. “
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New rules in Scotland establish a 10pm curfew in pubs, cafes and restaurants starting Friday night.
A nationwide ban was imposed to prevent people from visiting other homes in the interior, extending the restrictions already in place across much of west central Scotland.
Similar restrictions are taking effect in England, where the Prime Minister has tightened the rules on social gatherings.
Sturgeon said the number of cases tripled in the past three weeks, the virus is spreading and people are “sadly dying.”
In the last 24 hours, one person died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus. An alarming 383 people tested positive for Covid-19. The Scottish government confirmed that 73 people are currently hospitalized with the virus, while 10 are in intensive care.
She added: “So even though we are all struggling with this, and believe me, we are all struggling, let’s come together.
“Let’s keep going, let’s try to keep smiling, let’s keep waiting and caring for each other. Be strong, be kind and let’s keep acting with love and solidarity.
“I will never find the words to thank you all enough for the enormous sacrifices you have made thus far. And I am sorry to be asking for more.
“But one belief that I hold on to, and one that I ask you to hold onto in those moments when everything feels too difficult, is this. If we stick to it, and above all, if we stick together , we will get through it. “
In his television address, Johnson opted for the conservative spirit of Churchill’s unity in an attempt to unite the UK.
When he called on the public to obey the “simple rules:” for survival, he said: “Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behavior.”
The Prime Minister added: “If we follow these simple rules together, we will spend this winter together. Difficult months will undoubtedly come. And the fight against covid is not over. I have no doubt, however, that we have great days ahead of us. But now is the time for all of us to summon the discipline, determination and spirit of unity that will help us. “
But Johnson also cautioned that “if people don’t follow the rules we have set, then we must reserve the right to go further,” noting that England could follow Scotland in banning home-to-home gatherings.
Much of England is already under the same restrictions that have been introduced in the Glasgow area and will now be imposed throughout Scotland.
Johnson admitted that it was against his libertarian values to introduce restrictions on people’s lives, but was forced to do so by the prospect of the virus getting out of control.
He said: “I am deeply and spiritually reluctant to do any of these impositions or infringe on someone’s freedom, but unless we take action, the risk is that we will have to take tougher action later, when deaths have already increased and we have a lots of cases of infection like the one we had in the spring. “
He added: “If we let this virus spiral out of control now, it would mean that our NHS would not have the space, once again, to deal with cancer patients and millions of other non-covid medical needs. And if we were forced into a new national lockdown , which would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods, but the loving human contact that we all depend on.
“It would mean renewed loneliness and confinement for the elderly and vulnerable, and ultimately, it would once again threaten the education of our children. We must do everything we can to avoid taking that path again.”
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