Nicola Sturgeon press conference opening statement, 8th January 2021 (2 of 3)

Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon press conference January 8th; SCOTLAND: Edinburgh: INT Nicola Sturgeon MSP (First Minister of Scotland) statement SOT (2 of 3) - The tests will require to be highly reliable –in terms of their specificity and sensitivity – and so in practice they are likely to be PCR tests. They will be required of anyone travelling to Scotland from outside of the Common Travel Area. And they will need to be taken, no more than 72 hours before people start travelling to Scotland. It is important to stress that the tests will not replace existing quarantine requirements, they are in addition to those quarantine requirements. So anyone travelling to Scotland, from a place which is not on our exemption list, will still have to isolate for ten days after they arrive. There will be a limited number of exemptions to this new testing requirement – for example, for younger children and for freight hauliers. A full list of these exemptions will be set out when we set out the further details of how the scheme will operate. In addition, we also announced last night a number of changes to the list of countries that are subject to the quarantine requirements. This includes extending the extra restrictions on travel from South Africa to a number of other countries in the region. Those restrictions will remain in place as we await findings of further analysis from UK and South African scientists on the impact of the new variant that has been identified there. And again, the full details of the countries affected – and also of the new restrictions – can be found on our website. However the most important point I want to emphasise is the one I made at the start – these restrictions on quarantine and testing really shouldn’t apply to very many people because nobody should be travelling to or from Scotland right now, unless there is a genuinely essential purpose for that, and I cannot stress that key point enough. My second update for to...
Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon press conference January 8th; SCOTLAND: Edinburgh: INT Nicola Sturgeon MSP (First Minister of Scotland) statement SOT (2 of 3) - The tests will require to be highly reliable –in terms of their specificity and sensitivity – and so in practice they are likely to be PCR tests. They will be required of anyone travelling to Scotland from outside of the Common Travel Area. And they will need to be taken, no more than 72 hours before people start travelling to Scotland. It is important to stress that the tests will not replace existing quarantine requirements, they are in addition to those quarantine requirements. So anyone travelling to Scotland, from a place which is not on our exemption list, will still have to isolate for ten days after they arrive. There will be a limited number of exemptions to this new testing requirement – for example, for younger children and for freight hauliers. A full list of these exemptions will be set out when we set out the further details of how the scheme will operate. In addition, we also announced last night a number of changes to the list of countries that are subject to the quarantine requirements. This includes extending the extra restrictions on travel from South Africa to a number of other countries in the region. Those restrictions will remain in place as we await findings of further analysis from UK and South African scientists on the impact of the new variant that has been identified there. And again, the full details of the countries affected – and also of the new restrictions – can be found on our website. However the most important point I want to emphasise is the one I made at the start – these restrictions on quarantine and testing really shouldn’t apply to very many people because nobody should be travelling to or from Scotland right now, unless there is a genuinely essential purpose for that, and I cannot stress that key point enough. My second update for to...
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