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Nicola Sturgeon prepares to address the Scottish Parliament
Nicola Sturgeon is preparing to outline the new coronavirus restrictions at Holyrood.
The prime minister, along with her counterparts from Wales and Northern Ireland, will participate in a Cobra meeting with Boris Johnson.
He will then meet his cabinet before heading to the Scottish Parliament in the afternoon.
It comes after UK medical directors raised the coronavirus alert to level 4.
This means that the transmission of the virus is “high or increases exponentially”.
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Downing Street confirmed Monday evening that Johnson had spoken by phone with the Prime Ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and that they had all agreed to act “with a united approach, to the extent possible, during the days and weeks ahead. “
Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that her Holyrood statement would go ahead.
In his daily briefing on Monday, he said that “almost certainly” additional lockdown restrictions would be put in place in Scotland in the next 48 hours.
He said the coronavirus was spreading again in the country and that “additional and urgent action” was needed to stop the rise, warning that if left unchecked, it would lead to more cases, people in hospital and deaths.
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Prime Minister wants to try to avoid a total “stay at home” blockade
He said the Scottish government was prepared to introduce “a package of additional measures” but that its aim would be to avoid a large-scale lockdown such as the March tax.
On Monday, the number of cases in Scotland increased by 255, representing 6.3% of new examinations, up from 5.4% on Sunday.
Sturgeon said the Scottish government supported the warning from the UK’s top scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance that new cases could increase by 50,000 daily in October.
“In my opinion, additional and urgent action will now be needed to stop the increase in the number of cases,” he said.
‘Hospitality Warning’
She added: “At the heart of this decision is a simple truth, the longer we wait to introduce new measures, the more likely these measures are in place.
“By acting vigorously now to get the virus back under control, we can minimize the time we all spend under new restrictions.”
“If we wait, it will take longer, potentially much longer, to get out the other side.”
In Northern Ireland, indoor domestic mixing is no longer allowed. Similar measures can be seen here at the national level, and the prime minister has warned that hospitality could suffer as well.
