Quarantine restrictions will be imposed on people travelling from Greece to Scotland, the Scottish government has announced.Ministers said they have taken the move due a"significant rise" in cases of Covid-19 being brought into Scotland from people who have been to Greece.As a result the country has been being removed from the exemption list on public health grounds.
It is believed prevalence of Covid-19 in Greece currently remains lower than 20 per 100,000 but a number of cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to travel to Greece.Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said:"We are in the midst of a global pandemic and the situation in many countries can change suddenly."With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases from Greece is a significant risk to public health.
Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said:"There is a compelling public health risk around importation of the virus, especially given the number of imported cases linked to the Greek islands. "The flow of travel between Scotland and Greece, and the behaviour we have seen from some of those travellers, means that on public health grounds there is a strong case - supported by public health directors - to remove Greece from the exemption list."
Nothing to do with statistics, this is just a politics game, sturgeon trying to show assertiveness over Westminster,
Booo
Why that time? It’s like when they introduced the masks. Announcing it on the 10th? For everybody to where on the 25th? There was a massive gap.
Ignore it. THIS SCAM IS OVER
Just do it now. F**k em.
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MSM scare everyone, Scotland and Wales use this situation to apply more control. This decision is nothing to do with health and everything to do with control. Absolute stupidity yet again Greece has lower cases than Portugal but is added due to ONE FUCKING CASE People wake up
sad thing is people will actually do this 😔 mass non compliance is needed!!! the only way things will go back to normal is to stop listening to the media and ignore the government
At least it will give the Scots time to recover from their sunburn as well.
TORIES OUT
No basis for this decision, wee jimmy crankie flexing her political muscles again...
Greece is 13.7 well below the 20 per 100000 sturgeon is a nut blaming Greece when the people returning probably took it with them
Where’s the torrent of criticism at the last minute change, out of step?
Just don’t get it; even if they return before a certain time, they may already have contracted the virus. Anyone returning from hols should automatically quarantine - it would make sense.
They've handled it much better than we have.
a genuine question because I’m quite lost: if we show a negative test, do we still have to isolate? (for everyone who will arrive after Thursday)
I’m literally dizzy with all this .... on, off,on,off, more times than a hookers knickers 🤨
We need to make everyone from anywhere quaruntine
Why ? UK figures similar to Greece, some areas of Greece relatively untouched. Glasgow now on the verge of extra restrictions
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BST - Bullshit time
It's surprising to me how people still think vacations are necessary. If we all just made sacrifices now, it won't drag out so much.
Ridiculous
But if you arrive at 3.59am you're perfectly safe.
Believe that if you like
...not a problem, I know a very good monastery around these parts 👍
Crazy crazy times. Is there no end to this nonsense.
Another hysterical overreaction based on a few ‘cases’ using an unreliable test.
Should be the case with every country.
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