Glasgow: The city that has been locked down for nine months

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While most of the UK is opening up, Glasgow is nearing nine months with some of the strictest Covid restrictions in the country.

People are forbidden from mixing in each other's homes, pubs are closed for indoor drinking and no-one is allowed to visit or leave the city without good reason.

Rising case rates driven by the Indian variant have seen restrictions remain in Glasgow, while rules ease across the rest of Scotland.

With signs that new cases are stabilising, families and business owners hoped an announcement on Friday would bring an end to their 270-day confinement. But First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it would be "premature" at this stage and a decision will be made next week.

www.bbc.co.uk

Glasgow: The city that has been locked down for nine months

People in Glasgow have been enduring some of the strictest restrictions in the country since last autumn.
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Pretty sure they are worried about what happens when fans arrive for the Euros next week.
I assume they want the lowest possible number of cases before that happens even though the link between rising cases and death/hospitalisations appears to be well and truly broken.

Paralysing fear is a difficult pit to climb out of it seems.
 
Shame as like Glasgow & people who live there, great city with much to see, hope things improve soon.
 
The situation in Glasgow exemplifies the Scottish government approach, which follows exactly scientific advice - they now have their own set of scientific advisers, rather than earlier in the pandemic they followed SAGE. Johnson ignores SAGE, and ignores the fact that new cases of the variant rose from 3000 to 6000 in a week.

The persisting restrictions in Glasgow remain while every effort is taken in the uptake of vaccination in the city. When a downturn in infection is persistent, restrictions will ease. Slow and steady wins the race, not Johnson specifying dates like 21 June for full freedom. You can be sure that date will will be held to, whether or not scientists advise continuing restrictions. Scotland sticks to data, not dates.

@pm133 has got the right focus, if that gap between infection rate and hospitalisation and deaths becomes much greater, we can relax. It isn't quite at that stage yet
 
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