Roadmap out
Nicola Sturgeon finally gives Scots the details they are desperate for as she lays out Scotland’s route back to a more normal life. Health Editor Vivienne Aitken outlines the key dates with everything you need to know about holidays, pubs, hairdressers –
Communal religious worship can resume.
● Stay at Home rule to be lifted and replaced by Stay Local guidance, with people urged to stay within their own local authority area unless for an essential purpose. ● People can still meet outdoors, including gardens, in groups of four people from up to two different households.
● Homeware stores, car showrooms and forecourts and garden centres can reopen. ●Click and collect retail services resume. ● Hairdressers and barbers will be open for appointments. ●Contact sports for 12 to 17-year-olds can resume. ●More students can return, particularly in further education campuses, with colleges prioritising those most at risk of not completing their qualifications.
● Final phase of school returns, with all pupils now back in the classroom full-time.
●All parts of mainland Scotland move from Level 4 to a modified Level 3 – with travel allowed between council areas. ●Pubs, cafes and restaurants can serve people outdoors in groups of up to six from three households until 10pm. Alcohol may be served and there will be no requirement to buy food. ●Limited indoor hospitality may be permitted but only for food and non-alcoholic drinks until 8pm for four people from two households. ● All remaining retail premises can reopen. ●Tourist accommodation begins to reopen. ● Libraries, museums, galleries will be able to open. ● Individual exercise in swimming pools and gyms can resume. ● Driving lessons can resume. ●Tradesmen can begin work inside people’s homes. ●Limit on weddings, funerals and receptions increases to 50 people. ●Six people from up to three households can meet up outdoors. ●Youngsters up to 17 years old can meet six people from six different households outdoors. ●Those on the shielding lists can return to work, college, university or school. ● Island communities currently in Level 3 may move to Level 2 but with relaxed hospitality rules. Discussions are still under way to determine if travel restrictions may be kept in place to prevent mainlanders travelling to the islands. ● Restrictions between Scotland and the remainder of the UK and the wider common travel area to be lifted as near to April 26 as possible.
●Expectation that all Level 3 areas will move to Level 2. ●Indoor hospitality returns to greater normality with alcohol served indoors and within more normal opening hours, likely to be 10.30pm closing.
● Adult outdoor contact sports and indoor group exercise can resume. ● Cinemas, bingo halls and amusement arcades can reopen. ●Small scale outdoor and indoor events can restart. ●Colleges and universities return to a more blended model of learning with more students on campus. ● Face-to-face support services resume. ●Non-pro performance arts may begin again. ●Restrictions on outdoor social gatherings to ease further.
People will be allowed to meet up with friends and family in their homes – initially four people from two households at a time.
Discussions with the aviation sector about when international travel can resume are ongoing but it will be at least May 17.
●Early June: All of Scotland moves to Level 1 by beginning of the month. ●Late June: All of Scotland moves to Level 0 by the end of the month.