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Nicola Sturgeon left Boris Johnson’s coronavirus lockdown plan in ruins today when she told the Scots to stay away from public spaces unless they exercised, after people in England were told it was okay. go sit in the sun.
The Scottish Prime Minister broke down Boris Johnson’s new and chaotic closure plans today, insisting that they would not be used in Scotland.
The Prime Minister said she would ignore the Prime Minister’s new ‘Vague’ slogan ‘Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives’ in favor of the previous ‘Stay Home’ message.
And at her daily press conference this lunch hour, she directly responded to Mr. Johnson’s guidance last night that it was now okay to ‘sit in the sun in your local park’ as long as the rules of social distancing were followed.
At a lunchtime press conference, Ms. Sturgeon said the only change in Scotland was to remove a limit on how many times people could exercise daily.
“Right now, we don’t want to see more open businesses, more people going to work, we still don’t want to see more people using public transportation, and we’re still not changing who can or should be in school.” said.
“By exercise we mean activities like walking or running or cycling, not at this stage sunbathing or having a picnic,” he added.
“This doesn’t really give people a license to meet in the park or on the beach.”
It was the last sign that Johnson’s attempt to keep the UK’s four nations, whose leaders have control over their own blocking measures, in sync over the coronavirus was in danger of collapse.
At a lunchtime press conference, Ms Sturgeon said the only change in Scotland was to remove a limit on how many times people could exercise on a daily basis, adding: ‘This really doesn’t give people a license to meet in the park or on the beach ‘
Last night, Johnson said it was now okay to “sit in the sun at your local park” as long as the rules for social distancing were followed.
Send police to monitor the border with England, says SNP politician
A prominent SNP member of parliament suggested sending the police to act as border guards to prevent people from England from entering Scotland.
Angus MacNeil (below) said firm action might be necessary if England opened its lockdown faster than Scotland to prevent another outbreak north of the border.
The Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP in the Western Isles told the national independence paper: “ If England opens too soon, they will be heading for another recession because England, like Scotland, has no idea of the asymptomatic in their midst. If people move and mix more, the virus will spread.
“On the Irish border, the guards are there to make sure that people don’t move and it may be the case that we have to do the same on the Scottish border.” Border surveillance would not be impossible to do. It is already being done around the islands.
However, his comments last night were rejected by Nicola Sturgeon, who said he had no plans to alter the way the border is handled.
Ms. Sturgeon added: “ To fight this virus, we still need to keep separate from each other, we still have to stay home. And the more we do it now, the sooner we can alleviate these restrictions more. ”
She added: ‘We all want to see our friends and families, we all miss them more with each passing day. We all want to see the children go back to school and we all desperately want to go back to some kind of normalcy.
“Please know that I want all of that, too, I want him as his prime minister, but actually I also want him as an ordinary person who misses my family very much.”
A total of 1,862 patients died in Scotland after testing positive for coronavirus, five times more than 1,857 on Sunday, Ms Sturgeon said.
She said 13,627 people have now tested positive for the virus in Scotland, an increase from 141 from 13,486 the day before.
Last night Mark Drakeford, his Welsh counterpart from Sturgeon, said the “stay home” message had not changed in Wales, either.
Speaking to Sky News today, Ms Sturgeon denied a rift in the UK, saying she was speaking from a legal rather than a political position.
“The prime minister last night, aside from things like border control, was talking about lifting the restrictions in England.” I have to make judgments about what is right for Scotland, ‘he said.
“At this point, I think it would be too risky to ease the restrictions because the virus, while we have advanced against it, is still not under control enough.”
“That progress we have made is fragile and I think it is really important to err on the side of caution.”
Speaking to the BBC about sending people back to work, he added: ‘If, given the state of evidence in Scotland and the state of the virus in Scotland, I did it now in Scotland, then yes, I think that could potentially puts lives at risk.
Dominic Raab was charged with “becoming dishonest” after a disastrous Monday morning media round in which he contradicted Boris Johnson’s closing speech
The Prime Minister said she would ignore the Prime Minister’s much-criticized catchphrase: “Stay alert, control the virus, save lives” in favor of the previous “Stay home” message.
At Piers Morgan’s grill at Good Morning Britain today, Sturgeon responded to suggestions from Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab that people would be allowed to see their parents living elsewhere as long as they were two meters away. .
Ms Sturgeon, questioned by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, responded to suggestions from Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab that people would be allowed to see their parents living elsewhere as long as they were two meters from distance.
She said: ‘That is not the situation in Scotland. The situation in Scotland, apart from that change regarding the exercise, has not changed.
“The advice is to stay home, stay away from people in homes other than yours.”
‘Now, I haven’t seen my parents in weeks and weeks and weeks, I miss them so much. My husband and I have not seen my 90-year-old mother-in-law in weeks, who is very vulnerable.
“These are really difficult things for everyone, but there is a reason for that and that is for the protection of older people.”
She added: “ He has made decisions that he believes are correct for England.
“He is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, but in terms of easing the blocking restrictions or changing the message, that is for England.”
The number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus in Scotland currently increased by approximately 13,000, meaning that it represents around 6.5 per cent of the UK total.
It came when Raab was accused of “becoming dishonest” after a disastrous Monday morning media round in which he contradicted Boris Johnson’s closing speech in which the Prime Minister said millions of people should return to work from this morning.
The foreign secretary has created an ocean of confusion after insisting that the government is not urging workers to return until Wednesday, when most were already on their way by road or public transportation.
Raab also said that people can meet two family members, like parents in the parks, while maintaining social distancing, when Downing Street reported last night that there was only one and Johnson did not mention family or friends in his speech to the nation.
He also got into trouble and suggested that the pubs could open as early as June, when the prime minister said it wouldn’t be before July.
Downing Street has already rushed to repair some of the damage and clarified that the British should not meet their parents in the park, insisting that it should only be one person.
Ms Sturgeon said: ‘If you live in England, you must take the Prime Minister’s advice and it is for the Prime Minister to clearly establish why he thinks these decisions are correct …
“The state in Scotland is such that I think the message of staying home now is the one we must follow.”
‘My responsibility is to do what I think is right for Scotland. I believe that all leaders, including the Prime Minister, have an obligation to be very clear in the messages they convey.
‘I have been very clear. I think ‘being alert’ is very vague compared to ‘staying home’, but I have said that the virus does not respect borders all the time. ‘
Welsh political leaders have also put distance between their own administrations and Johnson.
People will be able to exercise more than once a day and garden centers will reopen in Wales starting Monday.
But last night Drakeford said: ‘Tonight the Prime Minister has set out the proposed minor changes to the closing rules in England for the next three weeks.
‘I expose the modest changes to the housewife regulations that we are making in Wales on Friday. These will take effect tomorrow afternoon.
‘Here in Wales, we will change the regulations so that people can exercise more frequently and allow garden centers to open, if they can comply with social distancing.
“Our advice has not changed in Wales.”
He said that people should stay home whenever possible and stay local and alert when they work, shop, and exercise.
Drakeford said Johnson’s ‘road map for the future’ is at an early stage, as it depends on how the coronavirus behaves in the coming weeks and months.
He repeated that schools in Wales would not “return to normal” on June 1.
The starting point for confinement fines in England will increase to £ 100 from Wednesday.
The first fine will be reduced to £ 50 if paid within 14 days, according to the Home Office.
Fines will be doubled for each repeated offense, up to a maximum of £ 3,200.
Existing legislation known as the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations (England) 2020 will be updated from Wednesday to reflect the changes taking effect.
It is not yet clear whether the same changes to fines will be adopted in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
You CAN go on vacation to France: PM’s 14-day quarantine plan for travelers entering the UK falls apart when Macron reaches agreement that it will NOT apply to people returning to Britain from France
British tourists will be able to enjoy holidays in France this summer after being exempt from strict quarantine rules.
The UK government confirmed yesterday that it will compel anyone flying into the country to remain isolated for 14 days to stop new coronavirus infections.
Over the weekend, France threatened to impose an ‘eye for an eye’ action against British travelers, meaning that anyone in the UK would have been quarantined upon arrival in France.
But Boris Johnson yesterday called French President Emmanuel Macron and agreed to a mutual exemption from the measures for tourists from both countries.
People traveling between Britain (left, Boris Johnson) and France (right to right, Emmanuel Macron) will not face the two-week quarantine announced by the UK government last week.
The two leaders said in a joint statement: ‘The Prime Minister and the President agreed to work together to carry out appropriate border measures.
‘This cooperation is particularly necessary for the management of our common border.
‘Quarantine measures will not be applied to travelers coming from France at this stage. Any measure on both sides would be taken in a concerted and reciprocal manner.
“A working group will be established between the two governments to guarantee this consultation in the coming weeks.”
Last night, UK airlines threatened to land their fleets in response to the government quarantine scheme, which they said would effectively remove any hope of a resumption of international travel.
The Airport Operators Association, which represents Britain’s airports, said it would have a “devastating impact” on the industry.
According to government plans, all persons arriving at airports, ports and on Eurostar trains must provide an address where they will immediately isolate themselves for 14 days to ensure that they are free of coronaviruses.
Britain said on Friday starting in June that all arrivals in the UK, including returning Britons, would be quarantined for 14 days and face fines of £ 1,000 or deportation if they do not. Pictured: Arrivals from Terminal 2 at London Heathrow Airport on Saturday
Authorities will carry out random checks, with penalties of up to £ 1,000 fines and deportation for those who violate the quarantine.
The plans mean that any UK traveler who wants to go on vacation for fifteen days to countries other than France will have been out of their workplace for four weeks as they will have to be quarantined for two weeks upon their return to Gran Brittany.
Tim Alderslade, executive director of the industry body, Airlines UK, whose members include British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Ryanair, easyJet and major tour operators TUI and Jet2, said: ‘All of us, including the Government, need to adapt to the new normal but closing Air travel in this way is not the way to do it.
“The ministers are telling people that they can no longer travel for the foreseeable future and the airlines will respond based on their operations.”
Airlines are seeking an extension of the licensing plan until October plus ‘holidays’ by doing the duty of the air passenger and other government charges.
Meanwhile, Virgin Atlantic has appointed advisers in case he needs to go over to the administration after the government turned him down for a £ 500 million bailout.
The airline is making 3,150 employees, a third of its workforce, redundant, and is still desperately trying to shore up its finances.
Experts say this does not mean that insolvency is inevitable, but that it is something they are legally required to align.
The travel industry reacted with horror to the news of the two-week quarantine, and a company boss warned it could “be completely over.” Photo Shows: British Airways planes at Bournemouth Airport this week
Virgin Atlantic Chief Executive Shai Weiss told The Sunday Times yesterday that he was “100 percent certain” that the airline can survive.
On the proposed quarantine scheme over the weekend, Karen Dee of the Airport Operators Association said: ‘The quarantine would not only have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry but also on the economy as a whole. .
“If people have to be quarantined for 14 days, they will be much less likely to want to travel, so there will be a dramatic impact on us at a time when we already see a decrease in passenger numbers of about 98 percent ”
The Balpa pilots union questioned the “scientific basis” of the proposed quarantine rules and warned that the industry would be on a “death spiral” without government support.
A government spokesperson said: “The aviation sector is important to the UK economy and ministers regularly communicate with their senior representatives to discuss the challenges … and the ways in which we can support.”
All travel to France is currently highly restricted, only essential travel is allowed and an international travel certificate is required to cross the border.
Limitations are expected to remain in place until at least June 15.
