Scottish travel ban could be put into law to underline 'severity and importance' of Covid restrictions

Nicola Sturgeon has said bringing the travel ban to high Covid-19 prevalence areas of Scotland into law is still under consideration by the Scottish Government.

The First Minister said the ban would be moved to law to underline the “importance” of the message.

She said: "If we are to maintain that more targeted, proportionate approach, I hope that it is reasonably self-explanatory that we must then not have people travelling from one part of the country to another because the danger then is that the virus is spread from high prevalence areas to low prevalence areas, and those low prevalence areas will quickly become higher prevalence areas and the risk then is that they have to have a higher level of restriction.