There was jubilation in Glasgow as the city was finally placed in level 2 of Scotland’s Covid controls from midnight on Friday, with residents able to hug and meet in each others’ homes for the first time in eight months. But 13 other local authority areas must remain in level 2, Nicola Sturgeon said, rather than the further easing to level 1 that had been expected.
Nicola Sturgeon insisted that today’s decisions did not take areas backwards, while setting out that “a slight slowing down of the easing of restrictions, to allow time for more people to be fully vaccinated, will help protect our progress overall”.
Sturgeon said:
As someone who lives in Glasgow, I know they will make a huge difference to quality of life.
This means that people in Glasgow – as has been the case in most of the rest of Scotland since mid May – will be able to meet in homes in groups of no more than 6, from a maximum of 3 households. It also means that indoor licensed hospitality can reopen, and that people can travel again between Glasgow and the…
