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Restrictions on visiting different households have been reintroduced in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas after an increase in coronavirus instances.
The brand new guidelines have an effect on greater than 800,000 folks in Glasgow metropolis, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.
They’re being instructed to not host folks from different households in their very own houses or go to one other individual’s dwelling.
The restrictions got here into impact from midnight. They may final for 2 weeks, however shall be reviewed after every week.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stated on Tuesday that 135 of the 314 new instances in Scotland over the previous two days had been within the Higher Glasgow and Clyde space.
She stated Covid-19 continued to be a harmful and probably lethal virus.
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“It’s spreading once more, significantly in these three native authority areas, and we consider that, in these areas, it’s spreading primarily on account of family gatherings,” she stated.
The restrictions have an effect on 633,120 folks dwelling in Glasgow, 95,530 in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.
Individuals dwelling in these areas must also not go to another person’s dwelling, regardless of the place it’s.
The one exception is for these in prolonged households, who can proceed to fulfill indoors.
Solely important indoor visits shall be allowed in hospitals and care houses.
Individuals from totally different households can proceed to fulfill outside so long as they comply with the steerage, and outside visits to care houses are nonetheless permitted.
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“I feel this needs to be a wake-up name, not only for folks in Glasgow metropolis, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire,” stated the primary minister.
“It needs to be a wake-up name for all of us to stay to the rules and cease this virus spreading any additional or any quicker.”
Ms Sturgeon stated the reopening of colleges had not been answerable for what had occurred.
She stated a “very small quantity” of school-age youngsters had examined optimistic for the virus, and that this had largely been pushed by group transmission.
“A part of the rationale that we now have to take powerful motion, the place mandatory, to minimise group transmission is to cease that changing into an issue for colleges,” she stated.
She added that the preventative motion was designed to maintain colleges open and companies working.
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Ms Sturgeon had raised issues earlier within the day after the newest each day figures confirmed that 66 of the 154 new instances recorded in Scotland had been within the NHS Higher Glasgow and Clyde space.
That in contrast with a mean of eight instances a day in the identical space within the first two weeks of August.
The each day incidence price of Covid-19 is now nearly 33 new instances per 100,000 folks in West Dunbartonshire, 22 in Glasgow and nearly 19 in East Renfrewshire. The speed for the remainder of Scotland is simply over 10.
The native lockdown which was imposed in Aberdeen final month had been triggered by a price of 14 instances per 100,000 inhabitants.
Donald Macaskill, chief government of Scottish Care, stated the announcement was a bitter blow to care houses within the three affected native authority areas.
He instructed BBC Scotland’s The 9: “Sadly it’s the egocentric behaviour and perspective of some, who’ve put themselves first, which have meant that a few of our most weak residents have been prevented from assembly their households.
“I’m extraordinarily upset that there shall be a whole lot of households not capable of go to one another indoors within the subsequent week or so.”
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