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Last update: Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 2:45 PM
- Level 4 restrictions for 11 local authorities
- Front-line staff should be paid extra £ 2 per hour, says STUC
- 37 new Covid deaths in Scotland in the last 24 hours
Levle 4 lock to be ‘short and sharp’
Placing council areas in Scotland in the most severe restrictions is intended to be ‘short and precise’.
Nicola Sturgeon, who announced that 11 local authorities will move to Level 4 from Level 3 beginning at 6pm on Friday, Nicola Sturgeon said the changes should have an impact before Christmas.
The Prime Minister told the MSPs: “I know people are frustrated that other restrictions have stayed in place longer than planned.
But Level 4 is meant to be short and sharp. And in this situation, it is specifically intended to have an impact before Christmas and the most challenging winter period.
“Lifting the Level 4 restrictions then, as we will do, also means that they will not be in effect for most of the Hanukkah period, so again, although the celebrations may be different, there will be a greater degree of freedom.
“We will evaluate closer to the moment the level that will be applied in each area when the Level 4 restrictions end on December 11.”
The Prime Minister added that she hoped the affected areas could move to Level 2 “much faster than it would be otherwise.”
All areas moved to level four lockdown restrictions.
Scotsman’s health correspondent tweets:
West Lothian placed on lockdown level four
Edinburgh and eight other regions will remain at Tier 3
I can confirm that the city of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Dundee, Fife, Perth & Kinross and Angus will remain at level 3 for now.
Nicola sturgeon
Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, The Borders, Dumfries & Galloway and Argyll & Bute will remain at level 2
We hope that these areas, Argyll & Bute in particular, can move to level 1 soon. However, in some of these areas we have seen an increase in cases in recent days.
Nicola sturgeon
Edinburgh will remain at level three restrictions, says Prime Minister
East Lothian and Midlothian go to level 2
Both regions are currently at Level 3.
Sturgeon said there had been a “marked decrease” in the infection rate in both regions.
Local authorities will remain at level 2
I can confirm that Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, The Borders, Dumfries & Galloway,
and Argyll & Bute will remain at level 2.
Nicola sturgeon
Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles, Moray and Highlands will remain at level 1
Glasgow to go to level 4
The following areas will move to Level 4, the highest level of lockdown:
- East Renfrewshire
- City of Glasgow
- Renfrewshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- West Dunbartonshire
- North Lanarkshire
- South Lanarkshire
- East Ayrshire
- South Ayrshire
- West Lothian
- Stirling
11 Scottish local authorities to get to level 4
Sturgeon said that the move to the highest blocking level would be for a “limited time only.”
37 new deaths recorded in Scotland
Sturgeon confirmed that 37 people have died in the past 24 hours after testing positive for coronavirus.
He said another 1,248 tested positive in the same period, 9.7 percent of all those tested since Monday.
The Prime Minister is ready to address MSPs in the latest review of Scotland’s regional lockdown level system in the next few minutes.
His speech will continue once business prior to the Scottish Parliament is concluded.
