Members of the public will be legally required to stay at home with schools remaining closed in January UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under growing pressure to also place England back into full lockdown.Scotland will go back into full national coronavirus lockdown with schools remaining closed and members of the public legally required to stay at home, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced on Monday afternoon.
Sturgeon said she had chosen to act to prevent the situation in Scotland "deteriorating" to the same level as seen in England, where there has been an explosion in coronavirus cases and hospitalisations over the Christmas holidays.It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year."to place England back under a strict lockdown.