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  • Legal COVID restrictions to be lifted

    Created: 23/02/2022
    News/Events Category: General News


    On 22 February 2022, the Scottish Government set out its plans for Scotland to manage and live with COVID-19

    The updated Strategic Framework states that Scotland will now manage COVID-19 primarily through public health advice, vaccination, and treatment rather than legal restrictions.

    First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, set out an indicative timescale for remaining legal protections to be lifted:

    • vaccine certification will no longer be legally required from Monday 28 February, although the app will remain available so any business that wishes to continue certification on a voluntary basis to reassure customers will be able to do so;
    • current legal requirements on the use of face coverings, the collection of customer details for contact tracing purposes, and for businesses, service providers and places of worship to have regard to guidance on Covid and to take reasonably practicable measures set out in the guidance are expected to be lifted on 21 March, subject to the state of the pandemic; and
    • access to lateral flow and PCR tests will continue to be free of charge, ahead of a detailed transition plan being published on the future of Scotland’s test and protect programme in March.

    People who test positive for COVID-19 will continue to be asked to self-isolate to reduce the risk of infecting other people. Any changes to the recommended period of self-isolation will be considered on an ongoing basis.

    More information here.




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