"From midnight and for all of January, you will be legally required to stay at home," announces Nicola Sturgeon, thus plunging Scotland into a new strict containment.
This will be “similar to that of March” 2020, specifies the Scottish Prime Minister, who has taken this drastic measure to control the surge in contamination attributed to the variant of the new coronavirus.
Nicola Sturgeon invokes a "hard blow" but that "it is essential that we limit the interactions to bring the situation under control while we vaccinate more people", she explained.
With more than 75,000 dead, the United Kingdom is one of the countries in Europe most bereaved by Covid-19 and the trend has worsened in recent weeks. The number of daily positive cases has exceeded the 50,000 threshold for several days. Hospitals are already inundated with Covid-19 patients, more numerous than at the worst of the first wave in the spring.