Most of the coronavirus restrictions have been Scotland After the country rose to level 0 at midnight.
Legal requirements for physical distancing (except for health care venues) and legal requirements for gatherings have been cancelled, and all venues, including nightclubs, can now be reopened.
Some measures, such as the requirement to wear masks in indoor public places and public transportation, will remain unchanged.
This First minister The MSP was told last week that due to “steady decline in cases” and “successful vaccination”, the country may exceed level 0, which is the lowest level of Scotland’s five-level restriction system.
According to the new regulations, double-vaccinated adults and all children who are in close contact with a coronavirus-infected person can avoid self-isolation as long as they are asymptomatic and provide a negative PCR test.
After school resumes, students and teachers will have to continue to wear masks indoors for up to six weeks. government Say.
However, if an infection is found, the entire class of the school will no longer need to stay at home, although children and adults who are in close contact with high-risk individuals will be told to isolate them.
Since the announcement, Scottish Government The position of requiring masks to be worn in nightclubs has been changed, and people are now allowed to stand and drink in bars.
Outdoor activities with more than 5,000 people and indoor activities with more than 2,000 people must apply for permission from local authorities and governments.
When announcing the removal of further restrictions, Nicola Sturgeon Monday was hailed as “probably the most important date to date” in the pandemic.
She later stated that Scotland was in a “much better position than expected at the beginning of the summer” with regard to Covid, but urged Scots to “continue to take sensible precautions” despite the cancellation of many legal coronavirus rules from Monday.
According to statistics from the Scottish government, the number of new coronavirus infections peaked at 4,234 on July 1, but the average daily number of cases in August was 1,172.
Data on Sunday showed that Scotland recorded 1,240 new cases of coronavirus.
So far in August, 53 people have registered positive for the virus for the first time in the past 28 days, bringing the death toll under this measure to 7,992.
A total of 3,323,466 Scots have been fully vaccinated, while 4,024,852 have received at least one dose.
Ms. Sturgeon quoted the Herald’s column on whether the pandemic is over, and wrote: “The pandemic is not over yet (as the correct conclusion of this article), but we are in a better position, (sic) we may I think it will start in the summer-if we all continue to take wise precautions, even if the legal restrictions end, we can hope to maintain this state.”
The latest weekly data also shows that the number of deaths related to the coronavirus in Scotland has fallen for the first time since June.
Data from the National Records of Scotland (NRS) shows that in the week from July 26 to August 1, 46 people mentioned Covid-19 deaths on their death certificates.
This marked a drop of 10 in the previous week and the first drop in seven weeks.
