LONDON (Reuters) – Scotland will go into a new lockdown with people ordered to stay at home for January to tackle the escalating COVID-19 crisis, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday.
Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament that from midnight on Monday people would face a legal requirement to stay at home except for essential purposes, similar to the lockdown imposed at the start of the pandemic in March last year.
“The situation … is extremely serious,” she said.
(Reporting Guy Faulconbridge; writing by Kate Holton)
